Sublime

But what does hurt you is the effect that you see from animal product consumption—less SCFA-producing good bacteria, more inflammatory bacteria, increased intestinal permeability, release of bacterial endotoxin, creation of carcinogenic secondary bile salts/polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons/N-nitroso compounds/heterocyclic aromatic amines, and

In a letter to Science magazine in 2001, Professor Julian Davies warned that decoding the human genome was not enough to understand human biology because there are more than a thousand bacterial species living in and on the human body and they are critically affecting human life. We previously noted that there are more bacteria than cells in the

The theory is this: some infectious agents–notably those that coevolved with us–protect us from immune-related disorders.

Twenty-five percent of New Yorkers have toxic blood levels of mercury from eating too much sushi

disruptions to the body’s microbes were behind gastrointestinal disorders, allergies, autoimmune diseases, and even obesity. And it wasn’t just physical health that could be affected, but mental health as well, from anxiety and depression to obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and autism. Many of the illnesses we accept as part of life were not, it

Their story ultimately has a happy ending—Marshall and Warren were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2005, and now stomach ulcers are regularly treated effectively with antibiotics, improving and saving the lives of millions of people.