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...
Cravings Are Clues For decades, he treated cravings like enemies. Evening sugar, stress-snacking on chips, the strange urge for bread even when full – he blamed willpower, maybe metabolism, maybe old habits. But the more he learned, the more he saw a different story: cravings weren’t failures. They were signals. The science pointed in that...
Putting Out the Fire Inside For years, he thought he was eating enough fiber. A salad here, a banana there, the occasional bowl of oatmeal. It felt balanced. But when he began looking more closely at the science, he realized: fiber wasn’t a number on a label. It was a language. And most of his...
I Sequenced My Gut—Here’s What I Found It wasn’t just curiosity anymore – it was accountability. After months of restructuring his habits, feeding his microbes, and testing the limits of rhythm and food, he wanted to see if the inside reflected the effort. Who exactly was living in him now? He had always warned patients...
How Sweet It Isn’t He had always been suspicious of “sweet without calories.” It sounded like cheating nature. And the more he dug into the science, the more he realized that his instinct wasn’t entirely wrong – but neither was it completely right. Artificial sweeteners weren’t one story. They were many. Saccharin, sucralose, aspartame, stevia,...
My Cells Needed a Microbial Upgrade He had felt it for years – that creeping fatigue that no coffee could fix. His labs looked fine, his diet clean. But deep inside, he knew something was off. Not just a gut issue. Not just aging. Something cellular. That’s when he began connecting the dots: the gut...
The Hidden Toxins Around Me He once believed health was mostly about food, fitness, and rest. But the deeper he went into microbiota science, the more he realized another invisible layer was at play: the exposome—the total sum of environmental exposures we encounter daily. Plastics, pollutants, fragrances, cleaning chemicals, heavy metals, even the air he...
The Great Fermentation Experiment He’d eaten sauerkraut before. Occasionally bought kombucha. Maybe spread a little miso into soup. But until now, fermentation had been just flavor. Not medicine. Not a mission. That was about to change. The more he studied the microbiota, the more one truth kept surfacing: populations with higher microbial diversity often include...
Vice and Virtue in the Gut World For years, he thought small indulgences were harmless. A glass of wine, a strong espresso, the occasional painkiller. Not excess, not abuse – just comfort. But as his journey deepened, he realized something subtle: even the “little things” were messages to the microbiota. Alcohol, for instance, carried more...
