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...
The Secret Shield Within He used to think of immunity as something that happened in the blood – T-cells, antibodies, inflammation. But the more he read, the more it became clear: the real front line is the mucosa, especially in the gut. And the secret soldier guarding that border? A molecule called secretory IgA. Produced...