The Microbiome Owner's Manual

For professors who teach evolutionary biology, the question will always arise: Have humans adapted to the environment? Answer: Yes, of...

From the previous example of how symbioses with bacteria might form, consider the huge number of bacteria in our internal ecosystem that...

The origin of mutualistic systems, such as our microbiome, is lost to the very distant past, but it almost certainly did not begin as a...

Probably the most well-known and oft-repeated themes of evolutionary biology are the phrases “adapt or die” and “only the strong...

The microbiome is a dynamic ecosystem, even more so than the ecosystem surrounding us in the outside world. The microbiome can change its...

We are not born with a microbiome; we begin to acquire it from our mothers and our environment at birth and as a continuous process over...

A Brief Tour of the Human Body - Your skin is crawling While it may make you queasy to know this, your digestive system may be just the...

The Little Things in Life Judging by the frequency encountered in the popular media, it’s a common belief that the human body contains...

(This section finishes the background info that I feel is necessary before we dive into the microbiome itself. It's important to...

(Before getting to the microbiome in detail, I think it's important to go over some background concerning issues that are going to...

Our understanding of complex natural ecosystems is not particularly good, but we have had an appreciation of the importance of species...

(Our love of technology as the answer to all of our problems underlies our lost connection to food. Technology has solved or promises to...

First, there is no such thing as good or bad bacteria. The entirety of the advertising world will disagree with that statement as well as...

(Summary: Since the Industrial Revolution, our history, philosophy, medicine, and every social science emphasizes human individuality.As...

There is a rapidly growing realization that the “modern plagues” arising over the past 70 years are evidence of a weakened microbiome...

(The tomato is one of the most amazing foods we eat and the complex flavors and healthy attributes are not an accident of nature. Yet, we...