There’s so much conflicting information on the Internet as to what promotes health and longevity. It seems to me that some peak performance enthusiasts are creating confusion, because the needs of a person under the age of 40 whose goal is vigorous physical performance is probably quite different from the average person whose goal is…

I mostly talk about the human microbiome here, but all of nature has a microbiome. Every species of plant and animal, as well as the soil from which plants grow, which are eaten themselves by animals. The more diverse and appropriate a soil microbiome is for a given crop in a given region is a…

There are at least three major focal points of modern environmentalist activism: endangered species, climate change, and toxins in the air, water, and food supply. Endangered species and climate change seem to get a lot more press than pollution does in the recent past. That’s unfortunate. Endangered species is an issue where decent people can…

I have been listening to an audiobook by Daisy Christodoulou titled the Seven Myths of Education. The central thesis of all of Daisy’s recent work is that K-12 school students need to learn from a core knowledge curriculum. What she means is that the emphasis in schools needs to shift away from generalized and vague…

I am a big fan of the Harvard school of public health. I was reading this article on their website about the Paleo diet and came across this information about grass-fed beef. Although some grass fed beef may have more omega-3 fatty acids than commercial beef, the amount that is produced in even the highest…

You may have heard that bone broth is rich in minerals like calcium but is it really? Turns out the answer is no. Like many people, I always naturally assumed that phone broth was rich in minerals, because, ahem, it comes from bones. I had noticed at one point that there was no calcium in…

I have been reading a lot of research on the importance of young children developing an extensive vocabulary in the context of the subjects in which those words are commonly used. I was inspired to go down this rabbit hole primarily by the recent work of Daisy Christodoulou. However, her work often references the research…

New research has revealed our gut microbiome dynamically responds in different ways to the same foods, depending on whether they are consumed cooked or raw. Read on newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/cooked-vs-raw-food-affects-gut-microbiome/ I have written and spoken at some length over the years about the cooked vs. raw food debate. I land firmly on the cooked food side. Homo…

Omega-6 fats were once criticized as unhealthy, but researchers for the American Heart Association have concluded that they are in fact beneficial to the heart. Kind of hard to keep up with this shifting landscape, isn’t it? From www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/no-need-to-avoid-healthy-omega-6-fats It turns out that the body converts very little linolenic acid into arachidonic acid, even when…

Cannabinoids and the Microbiota–Gut–Brain Axis: Emerging Effects of Cannabidiol and Potential Applications to Alcohol Use Disorders – Karoly – 2020 – Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research – Wiley Online Library Retrieved from onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/acer.14256: CBD may influence [Alcohol Use Disorders] AUD symptoms through its actions across the digestive, immune, and central nervous systems, collectively known as…