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In The Name of Global Equality: Power Acquisition and Corruption of the African Elite

By Dohrea Bardell Introduction In the rush for global economical equality, many of the Third World governments signed up for hefty loans from the World Bank in order for them to develop and moderni...

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...

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 ...