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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...

The Dynamics and Development of Western Power from Colonization to a Global Regime

By Dohrea Bardell Introduction Colonization was born out of the necessity of the West to enrich and develop their resources, expand their land usage and gain cheap labor. Wars, and taking over othe...

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 ...

Probiotic Naming Shenanigans

Dear Friends, Nomenclature, when it comes to bacteria, can be very confusing; partly because of the evolving technology for classifying organisms, which necessitates giving them new names correspon...

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 ...

I Can't Work Because Of My Panic

By Robert Anderson MD, ABIHM Executive Director Tom came to me as the seventh physician whom he had seen in two and one-half years. At 31, he had first seen his family doctor for attacks of anxiety...

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...

More Bugs in our Gut than Human Cells in Our Body

Dear Friends, We have finally arrived at the door of the gastrointestinal microbiome, an area of our body that is increasingly recognized as having major ramifications towards securing our health o...