I’m not gonna lie, after 10 years of immersing myself in the literature, it’s still hard to wrap my mind around the fact that the tiny, not-technically-me organisms in my gut have a say in my health, let alone my brain. Yet here we are. And the evidence for this connection is only getting stronger, […]

If there were an official list of things that you DON’T want in your Brain, number one would likely be a brain-eating amoeba, but right there behind it would be the much more common “Chronic Inflammation”. Because when the immune system gets stimulated to the point of chronic overactivity, one of the first and immediate […]

When you think of the characteristic we humans define as “Resiliency”, or our ability to not stress, bounce back, keep our cool, get knocked down and get back up again…. I’d bet the very last biological system that comes to mind is the trillions of non-self organisms which dwell in the smelly confines of your […]

Soon after the discovery of “sweet” taste receptors in the mouth, scientists sought to see if they alone were responsible for our sweet tooth…… To do this they created sweet-blind mice, or mice who had their taste receptors disabled, impairing them from picking-up this particular sensation in the mouth….. And…. Some How… SOME WAY….. The […]