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American Gut – Learn About Your Microbiome

whats-in-your-gutPlease 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).

Join the project via Indigogo here.

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.

The Brain-Gut-Microbe Axis

The Brain-Gut-Microbe Axis

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 ...

Bees and Flowers Communicate Using Electrical Fields

Bees and Flowers Communicate Using Electrical Fields

Images - various flowers (left: Geranium magnificum; middle: Gerbera hybrida; right: Clematis armandii) showing a composite of immediately before and after application of charged powder paint. The pattern of powder deposition reveals the shape of the electric field. Images by Dominic Cla ...

Elemental Chi Kung Workshops Vancouver 2013

Elemental Chi Kung Workshops Vancouver 2013

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 ...

Santa Claus and the Magic Mushrooms

Santa Claus and the Magic Mushrooms

Source: Zengardner.com via Before It's News Have you ever wondered why on Christmas we cut down/carry evergreen trees inside our houses, decorate them with fancy ornaments, and place presents underneath them? “So, why do people bring Pine trees into their houses at the Winter Solstice, p ...

HealThy Mouth World Summit

HealThy Mouth World Summit

Upcoming FREE online Event HealThy Mouth World Summit January 13 - 20, 2013 Helping you navigate to greater oral health www.HealThyMouthSummit.com Have you have come across the news about our upcoming FREE online event, the HealThy Mouth World Summit? We went on a quest to interview ...

The Dangers of Modern Electromagnetic Fields

The Dangers of Modern Electromagnetic Fields

This is a very important discussion of the terrible impact that wireless technology including celltowers, cordless phones and smartmeters are having on our health. Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt explains in no uncertain terms how devastating this modern technology is on our bodies. The electromagenetic ...

A Meditation on Mold

A Meditation on Mold

Stage one of mission soy sauce is complete and stage two is well underway. Stage two is the development of mold on the soya bean and wheat cakes. The original recipe called for wrapping the cakes tightly with damp paper towel and saran wrap. This didn't work for me. After about a week, I checked ...

Homemade Soy Sauce: Part 1

Homemade Soy Sauce: Part 1

As I started to write this post, I kept wanting to write: "Fermentation is not commonly used in the West." After I wrote it though I kept coming up with examples of fermented products - beer, wine, cheese, 'kraut, pickles, vinegar... etc. etc. We clearly ferment a lot of things. I suppose that in t ...

Making Fish Sauce

Making Fish Sauce

"An Englishman teaching an American about food is the blind leading the one-eyed." -A. J. Liebling I have often heard it said that the Vancouver restaurant scene owes its bounty to our large Asian population, that the expansive palate of Asian diners mirrors that of the French. Obviously Asia ...