Your health is intertwined with the health of your microbiota. If your microbiota is diverse, resilient, and dominated by bacteria that agree with your biology, then that means that you possess a natural defense against diabetes, colon cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, and a plethora of other diseases and health problems. Unless you’ve […]
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10 Common Misconceptions About Evolution
The word evolution carries with it a lot of baggage. Throughout the time it’s been in use, people have been attaching various connotations, dogmatic beliefs, and associations to it that they’ve formed on the basis of how they think the world works. During its evolution, evolution has rid itself of some of this baggage; however, […]
How Bread Messes With the Head
Yesterday, as I was rushing through a local grocery store that was one the verge of closing up for the day in pursuit of something to eat the remaining days of Easter, I was taken off guard by a craving for bread that came out of nowhere. I could feel that my body wanted some […]
Hate Exercising? This May Be Why…
It’s well-known that there’s a connection between physical inactivity, ill-health, and obesity. The general assumption is that physical inactivity is a cause of poor health, metabolic derangement, and fat gain. While not wrong, this presumption, which is certainly a very logical one, is incomplete, in the sense that it doesn’t encompass the full complexity of […]
Do We Really Need to Brush Our Teeth?
Many diseases and health problems that we – contemporary humans – consider to be largely unavoidable, such as acne vulgaris, a skin disorder that afflicts more than 90% of the adolescent population in some westernized countries, and malocclusion, a very common condition nowadays that is characterized by a misalignment of the upper and lower jaw, […]
Do Traditional People Hold the Key to a Healthy Life? 15 Questions with Researcher Pedro Carrera Bastos
Today I have the pleasure of sharing a very special interview with you. The interview is special for a number of reasons. First of all, it’s very comprehensive. It’s by far the longest and most detailed interview that has ever been published on Darwinian-Medicine.com. Second, much of my work here on the site revolves around […]
Darwinian-Medicine.com’s Health Assessment Service: Your Guide to Better Health
Are you struggling to get healthy? Are you having trouble figuring out what’s wrong with your body and how you should proceed to get where you want to go? If so, then chances are you can benefit from professional health guidance. The health assessment service that’s now offered here at Darwinian-Medicine.com can help you take […]
Why We Get Sick
In today’s article, which I intend to keep short, I thought I’d revisit an infographic that I created and put up here on the site some time ago. The reason I’m bringing this infographic out again instead of writing about something new is not that I have run out of ideas for things to write […]
Saturated Fat: Is the Tide Turning?
Several years back I started writing about saturated fat here on Darwinian-Medicine.com. In the time that has passed since then, I’ve published several articles about saturated fat as it relates to human nutrition and health. The reason why I’ve devoted quite a bit of time to this issue is that I’m concerned about the fact […]
The War on Fat: Is it Unhealthy to Eat Meat?
Meat has gotten a bad rep. If you are to believe the headlines, it’s to blame for everything from heart disease to stomach ulcers to global warming. Given that meat, and red meat in particular, has received so much bad press over the past several years – especially following the World Health Organization’s (WHO) release […]