In this Ted Talk, molecular biologist, Bonnie Bassler, talks about how microscopic, single-celled bacteria can act collectively to influence their environment. Since we are 90% bacterial (there are 10X as many bacterial cells as there are human cells in and on our bodies at any time), they are actually influencing us and this bacterial influence […]
Research Shows Antibiotics Can Cause Obesity
I had always known that commercial farmers put antibiotics into their livestock feed, and generally have tried to buy free-range, organic or antibiotic-free chicken and beef, even though it was much more expensive and the chickens were noticeably smaller. I’ve wanted to avoid meat raised this way not because of a fear that there were […]