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The Green Revolution Disaster

Dear Friends, When we focus on the biosphere we are examining the big picture, for what is the biosphere but the phenomena of life itself? This week we will continue to illuminate the major causes ...

Reductionist Thinking In Medicine: The Good and the Bad of It

Dear Friends, How do the policies for sustainable economy, environmental quality and social equity interact with the equation of health? Over the last nine months we have been discussing, in our we...

Immunomodulation By Probiotics Part 2

Dear Friends, There is an increasing body of evidence suggesting immuno-stimulation by probiotic bacteria in the gut can enhance immune protection at distal mucosal sites, such as the urogenital an...

Immunomodulation by Probiotics Part 1

Dear Friends, We are going to take a breather this week from diving deeper into the details of immunomodulation of the immune system by probiotics, and instead I am devoting this email to many of y...

The Pathogen Pandemic

Dear Friends, Why all the concern over the H1N1 virus with the WHO, the CDC, etc? Annually in the US alone, around 36,000 people die from the flu; and so far less than 200 people in Mexico have die...

Seeding the GI Tract

Dear Friends, Seeding the gastrointestinal tract with good bacteria is smart medicine. It is a critical component to achieving and maintaining good health. In this email I will share with you some ...

Children as Canaries in Mines

Dear Friends, Remember a couple of emails ago we sited frogs as being the canary in the mine? The common herbacide, atrazine, causes hermaphroditism 100% of the time when exposedto even very small ...

Hoodlums in the Gut

Dear Friends, It has been said that we are as good as the company that we keep, and indeed from a Lilliputian point of view, our body keeps company with many different cells, and it is the balance ...

Meet the Human Microbiome Project

Dear Friends, The scientific method develops a hypothesis and then backs it up with objective, repeatable evidence. We will be looking at some of the hypotheses posited by the Human Microbiome Proj...

Symbiosis in Action

Dear Friends, As you can see in our “beautiful creature” on the right, we have a picture perfect example of symbiosis in action. Within our gastrointestinal tract we will see further examples of sy...