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Dietary Effect on Microbiome/Human Health

Dear Friends The awareness that the health of the GI tract ecosytem (the Microbiome) is an important determining factor as to the overall health of the patient is becoming an accepted fact within b...

Happy New Year 2013

  Dear Friends It’s cold out there and we really need to huddle together. Hang on, Spring is coming! Dohrea and I wish each and everyone of you a wonderful holiday and for all of us a phenomenal, a...

Making friends with our microbiome

Dear Friends How are recent analytical advances within the field of microbiology bringing our relationship with Mother Nature back centerstage into the practice of medicine? Part and partial to the...

Human Microbiome Project I

  Dear Friends In 2012, we have completed HMP I.  Now it’s on to HMP II. What the heck am I talking about?  Glad you asked! The Human Microbiome Project (HMP) consortium in 2012 completed their fiv...

Origin of the Human Proteome

  Dear Friends Over the past two weeks, within our Forward Thinking newsletters, we have begun to the roll out the exciting news regarding the bugs that live in us and on us (our human microbiome) ...

NIH weighs in on the Human Microbiome (Part 2)

  Dear Friends In 2007 the Human Microbiome Project was launched by NIH.  After the successful mapping of the human genome by NIH’s Human Genome Project, the next logical genetic mapping, relevant ...

NIH weighs in on the Human Microbiome (Part 1)

  Dear Friends In 2003, the probiotic market in the U.S. was valued at $952 million.  Five years later it had grown by 160% to one billion, 527 million.  By 2015 it is projected to be at $3.1 billi...

Yes, ORAC is practical!

  Dear Friends In today’s email we’ll see, through peer-reviewed research, how ORAC can indeed offer a possible therapeutic window into the treatment and prevention of the diseases of aging.  The c...

Be Thoughtful with ORAC!

  Dear Friends The USDA recently removed ORAC values for selected foods from its data base, claiming ORAC values have been grossly misused by marketers.  Furthermore, they claimed that ORAC values ...

Loose Weight, Burn Fat

  Dear Friends As we age we tend to store more fat, simply because our body is less efficient converting stored body fat to energy. So then we diet and employ a caloric restriction, but our body, v...