microbiome

Blue Zones & The Microbiome

What are Blue Zones? Explorer, Earth trekker, researcher and journalist, Dan Buettner partnered with National Geographic in 2005 to investigate human longevity in relation to geography. The outcome from over five years of research was the premise of “blue zones,” the communities on the planet with the largest population of healthy centenarians (people who live to […]

Nursing the Microbiome

We have come a long way in the US, where only a couple generations ago, new mothers were not encouraged to breast feed their babies. Although breast feeding is an obvious function for all mammals, (actually it is the function that defines the term “mammals”), humans walk the confusing path, muddied by our determination to […]