Human body odor formation is greatly affected by the structure and actions of human-associated microbial communities (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). In other words, the trillions of microorganisms that colonize your body greatly influence what you smell like. You have a unique body odor, in part because you have a unique microbiota, which is shaped […]
Microbiome
Obesogenic Gut Bugs: How Bacteria Can Make Us Fat
The microbiome and the brain are the chief regulators of adiposity and eating behavior in humans. In many respects, the microbiome is even more important than the brain. Obviously, it’s the processes of the brain that ultimately shape our thoughts and behavior. What’s important to recognize though, is that these processes, in turn, are greatly […]
Ask Eirik: How Can I Rebuild My Microbiome After a Course of Antibiotics?
All of the antibiotic substances that we humans have infused into our bodies and our environment over the most recent centuries have dramatically altered our relationship with microbes. We’re now in the midst of a pandemic of inflammation-related, chronic illness. Our reckless, widespread use of antibiotics has most certainly contributed to causing this dire situation. […]
Fix Your Diet. Fix Your Microbiome.
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 […]
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, […]
The Therapeutic Potential of Fermented Vegetables
About a decade ago I started to realise that microbiome disruption is a root cause of a plethora of diseases and health problems. This triggered me to start looking for ways to restore the human microbiome, which I discovered had recently been severely damaged by various human activities. We humans are very “good” at breaking […]
eBook: Heal Your Gut With Fermented Vegetables
Do you feel like your body isn’t in peak shape? Is your quality of life compromised by an inflammation-related health problem such as irritable bowel syndrome, depression, acne vulgaris, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic fatigue, type-1 diabetes, or obesity? If so, then chances are your gut is in a sorry state and is largely to blame […]
How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Appetite
It’s commonly believed that our dietary preferences are fairly static, in the sense that they don’t change much, irrespective of how we live our lives. This assumption is erroneous. A person whose favorite food is doughnuts won’t necessarily crave doughnuts his whole life. By altering his lifestyle and behavior, in particular his eating behavior, he […]
It All Starts in the Gut
Most chronic health problems start in the gut. A lot of contemporary humans are overweight, chronically inflamed, tired, and metabolically deranged and have a less than stellar libido and mental health. This isn’t surprising, seeing as a lot of contemporary humans eat a species-inappropriate diet and harbor an imbalanced, unhealthy gut microbiota. Many are also […]
Are Salty Diets Proinflammatory?
This past week I’ve been taking in more salt than what I usually do. Not because I think I’m doing my body a favor by upping my intake of sodium chloride, but rather because so much of the food I’ve been served at the various social events I’ve attended during the holidays have been heavy […]