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What is the Human Microbiome Project (HMP)?

Dear Friends, What is the microbiome? Can you define it? The National Institute of Health defines it as the full collection of microbes (bacteria, fungi, virus, etc) that naturally exist within the...

The Eradication of Hunger

Dear Friends, I feel like the Mafioso character in the Godfather movies, whose comment, as he was trying to extract himself from being a part of the Mafia, was something like this, “Just when I tho...

Changing Our World For Good

Dear Friends, Nature urgently needs our good works! Together we can indeed bring back, re-create even, a healthy biosphere. But in order for our world to heal, we must all commit to do something—al...

Collective Bad Habits Are Killing Us

Dear Friends, Daily habits are hard to break! We know that bad habits are destroying our health and de-evolving our world. But we tend to forget that the most fundamental of our habits, and the mos...

Food Sovereignty, Eco-agriculture: Our Planet's Salvation

Dear Friends, Can You Identify this Beautiful Creature? If you happened to miss last weeks email, go to our website, click on the Publishing Blog, and read it. It is important! It sets the stage fo...

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 ...