Medical theory

Movement & Muscle Mass

No 10 – Movement & Muscle Mass

Strong Body, Resilient Gut He had always respected muscle. As a doctor and former thriatlonist, he’d seen firsthand how lean mass predicted everything from blood sugar stability to injury recovery. But now, as he moved closer to his 50th year, he saw it differently. Not just as armor – but as fertile ground for microbial...

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Sleep & Microbiota

No 9 – Sleep & Microbiota

I Fixed My Sleep, and My Gut Thanked Me At first, he thought his sleep issues were age-related. He’d wake up at 3 a.m., mind racing, heart slightly elevated. His Garmin watch showed fragmented deep sleep. He tried magnesium, meditation, white noise, blackout curtains. They helped – briefly. But nothing stuck. Then he looked inward....

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Probiotic Experiments

No 8 – Probiotic Experiments

Bugs in a Bottle: Friend or Hype? He stood in the supplement aisle of a well-stocked organic market, staring at a wall of promises. Probiotics for immunity. Probiotics for stress. Probiotics for weight loss. Probiotics for replacing hair. Dozens of bottles with billions of CFUs per capsule, many costing more than a nice dinner. And...

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Food additives and your microbiota

No 4 – Processed Foods & Dysbiosis

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,...

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No 2 – The Invisible Organ – Meet My Microbiota

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...

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