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...