nervous system

The Aspartame Story

With Easter coming up, you are all probably thinking up topics for Easter dinner. How ’bout this one? Aspartame — The true history of an artificial sweetener.

Despite it being written in comic form, this story is unfortunately completely true. See the whole comic here

http://www.pixton.com/ca/comic/83ls94kv

http://www.pixton.com/ca/comic/83ls94kv

Microbes Play crucial role in human health

Microbes Play crucial role in human health

Every day I see more information coming out about the amazing variety of ways in which beneficial microbes assist the human body in healing, absorbing nutrients, functioning, interacting, and much more. Our relationship with these tiny organisms is so intricately twined that we still have a long ...

A Year on the GAPS Diet

A Year on the GAPS Diet

I was recently looking at some of my first posts about the GAPS diet and realized...it's been a year! I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. So let me see if I can manage to say something coherent about our experiences over this past year. I still feel that my gut needs to do some serious ...

Micro-Organisms and Dreaming

Micro-Organisms and Dreaming

I have come to connect gut micro-organisms with dreams. Not just gut mirco-organisms, but fungus and bacteria in general, especially after I spent three days delirious, vomiting and feverish right before I found those black, slimy toxic mushrooms growing out of our carpet in New Zealand. I was havin ...