The Elite Forces of My Microbiota In the past, he had dismissed probiotics as just capsules of “friendly bacteria” with labels more ambitious than their actual effects. Most strains were fragile, rarely colonized, and often passed through like tourists. But then he discovered the newer class: spore-formers, butyrate-producers, pasteurized metabolic trainers, and engineered consortia. These...
My Microbial Inner Circle Explaining the microbiota was always a balancing act. People wanted clear roles: good vs. bad, heroes vs. villains. But the truth he came to see, after years of clinics, experiments, and even gut rewires, was far more intricate. The gut isn’t a battlefield. It’s a living web.A network of nodes and...
The Miracle Molecules Back in the old days during university, he had thought of digestion in simple terms – calories in, nutrients absorbed, leftovers discarded. But the “leftovers” weren’t waste at all. The indigestible fibers that humans can’t break down became the raw material for something else entirely: short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs). Tiny molecules, made...
