Please join us for Phase II of American Gut. During Phase I we raised $339,213, making it the largest crowd funded & open source SCIENCE project in history. World’s LARGEST open-source, community driven effort to characterize the microbial diversity of the Global Gut. All US and International participants welcome (including your dog).
We have now expanded the project and anyone in the world can join during Phase II. Help us reach 10,000 participants!
The University of Colorado and the Human Food Project have assembled a crack team of over 30 experts on the human gut microbiome in order to launch American Gut- an open-source scientific research study into the effects of diet on gut bacteria. And they need our help!
The trillions of bacteria living in and on our bodies have been found to play an integral role in our overall health and the development of disease. What is more, research strongly suggests that the state of our microbiome is largely affected by the foods we eat. The only problem is, that we don’t know exactly how.
“By combining the crowd-funding model with the open-access data analysis model that we pioneered with the Earth Microbiome Project, we can finally give anyone with an interest in his or her microbiome an opportunity to participate,” said Knight, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist.
Source: Jon Lieff MD This is a fascinating article about the power and importance of the microbes in our gut in communicating with body systems, with intuition, dreams, emotions and much more. It is very exciting to have all of this cutting edge information about our microbes coming to the forefr ...
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I was just given this lovely cookbook: French Farmhouse Cookbook by Susan Loomis in exchange for a cranio session. In a rather synchronistic manner when I opened it I immediately came to this page with a little blurb about what is called in France "le sucre d'intelligence" which is the result of ...
This morning I got to the courthouse late and missed what Gordon Watson had to say. Judge Wong wrapped it all up saying that it was a lot of information which he needed to spend some time looking over and that he had a fair amount of other work as well and that his judgement may not come for qui ...
DONATE to the Raw Milk Legal Defense Fund, fighting for raw milk access for all families across British Columbia and Canada It was an interesting day at the courthouse today. Many of us got there late but it didn't matter as there was some kind of a security alert going on and no on ...
Just got back from the New Westminster courthouse. Our cowshare family spent a loving day together listening to the interactions between the lawyers, judge, Gordon Watson and witnesses over what seems to be unravelling as a case of malicious intent on the part of Fraser Health against this priva ...
After about 6 months of moving around too much too keep up with my kefir culture my gut and immune system are much more easily compromised and weak...my liver has been feeling unhappy too. Today I finally had my first glass of homemade raw milk kefir and I am glad to be back on track. In the mea ...
Ged Sumner who has been practicing and teaching Chi Kung for many years around the world is starting a series of Chi Kung workshops in Vancouver in March 2013. He is doing a free introductory workshop on Jan 27th at the YWCA on Beatty St. More info and register here. The workshops in Chi Kung ...
Guinea Pig Kids by Topic In late 2004, a scandal erupted in New York City over the "volunteering" of more than 700 city foster children in clinical trials for HIV drugs already been shown to be toxic in adults. A city investigation later documented 200 deaths. It claimed, without complete me ...