The Enemies in My Pantry For someone who had competed in triathlon races, he wasn’t expecting to lose a battle to a granola bar. But there it was – half-eaten on the kitchen counter, smug in its plastic wrapping, listing ingredients that barely sounded like food: glucose-fructose syrup, “natural flavor,” soy isolate, sunflower oil, emulsifiers,...
Would You Swallow That to Live Longer? He had done strange things before. Fasted for 3 days. Ran a 42K with nothing but water and salt on a 400m track. But then he was only 17. Participated in over a hundred fecal transplants. But this was different. This time, the recipient wasn’t sick. This time,...
The Invisible Organ – Meet My Microbiota If you asked him twenty-five years ago, just after university what the most underrated organ in the human body was, he would’ve said the fascia. The brain. No! Definitely the liver. Now? It’s not even close. It’s the microbiota – the dense, teeming ecosystem of microbes that lives...
The Beginning: A Gut Feeling They say knowledge is power. But at 49, sitting at the edge of a trail he once visited as a beginner runner, he wasn’t so sure anymore. He had spent most of his life and career looking for something meaningful that would help others – dozens of patients with mysterious...
Let’s run an ultramarathon Is it possible for a perfectly average middle-aged man to change his lifestyle and, in a short time, reach a level of physical performance he had never achieved before? Do we already have enough knowledge to shorten this journey? If experience has shown that a bacterial composition from runners is more...
