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A January 22, 2020 article in Science Magazine reports that a healthy mix of microbes in our gut can prevent many diseases better than our own genes can, and can even indicate risk of dying in the next 15 years. The Science Magazine cited a review by Samuel Minot, a microbiome researcher at Seattle'...
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Never underestimate the potential contributions of small town living. From Jackson Wyoming a town of 9,577 people to Ogimi, Japan a village of just 3,000, great strides in brain health and longevity are happening organically. A January 18 article in Fortune magazine drew attention to a small lab, th...
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Japanese consume large amounts of raw fish and seaweed, in the form of sushi and nori. It is healthy for them partly due to a partnership with a seafaring bacteria friend found in their gut. Japanese gut bacteria aren’t just limited to the genes that they inherit from their ancestors. Bacteria nativ...
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The leaves and flower of honeysuckle have been used for several thousand years as a traditional Chinese medicine. It has been a challenge to discrimin...
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Dr. Vivek Shanbhag of Bastyr University explains that between 1,000 to 700 B.C. Ashrams gathered people together in India to discuss topics of the day such as health issues. Attendees of these open forums facilitated exchange of acquired knowledge; for example, about herbs and foods that help with c...
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Ayurveda is an over 3,000 year old health program originating in India. Ayurveda begins with fundamental principles centered around maintaining good health. These are described in the three doshas - Vata, Pitta, Kapha and the 4 goals of Ayurveda. I will explain the 4 goals in the next blog entry to ...
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Ophiopogon is an ornamental grass native to China, India, Japan, and Vietnam.Ophiopogon japonicus is better known as dwarf lilyturf, mondograss, fountainplant, and monkeygrass; or in Japanese: リュウノヒゲ ryu-no-hige ("dragon's beard") or ジャノヒゲ ja-no-hige ("snake's beard") (source: see Wikipedia).In trad...
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An October 10, 2019 study reported by Andrew Padros of Gut Microbiota for Health demonstrated that raw and cooked diets have a distinct effect on the ...
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It is becoming more accepted that Chinese herbs such as ginseng, berberine, and curcumin, have wide ranging biological impacts on our gut microbiome. On April 15, 2019, Chinese scientists published test results of the microbial effects of a popular Chinese herb called Coptis chinensis. Berberine, th...
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What is Lotka-Volterra modeling? It is the simple model of the population dynamics of species competing for common resource, according to Wikipedia. Because there are trillions of microbes in our bodies, it becomes a huge challenge collecting, breaking down, processing, packaging, then accurately ma...
