“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit) Understanding Food As Information (FAI) requires …
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Poop to the Rescue: How the Gut’s Hidden Microbes Could Help Heal Depression. Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike
“Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is.” – Irish Proverb Or to phrase it more simply: “Good food, good mood.” But is it really just about the …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: The Matrix — Clues to UPFs
“What is real? How do you define ‘real’? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: Enter Sandman: The Gut Microbiome and Insomnia
“Hush little baby, don’t say a word And never mind that noise you heard It’s just the beasts under your bed In your closet, in your head…” — Metallica, Enter …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: PFAs — Never Say Forever
“What we do in life ripples in eternity.” — Marcus Aurelius Previous columns (here and here) have touched on the subject of PFAs, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or, as they …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: Gut Bacteria on the Clock
“For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: Gut Bacteria, Breast Cancer, and Broken Hearts
“Everything in Nature is connected. Only human-made machines are linear.” ~Fritjof Capra, Philosopher & Physicist We like to think of ourselves as individuals, Captains of our fate, charting the course …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away With Chef Dr. Mike: Message in a Bottle–The Fingerprints of Gut Bacteria in Our Brains
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own Every day, it seems, more data accumulates that …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away with Chef Dr. Mike: Timer of Our Lives
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils.” — Hector Berlioz Over the last year, various articles and research were presented in this column, representing advances …
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Study Spotlight Take-Away with Chef Dr. Mike: The Brain, Gut & Alzheimer’s
“A healthy gut is essential for a healthy mind.” ~ Emeran Mayer Over the last several years, there has been increasing evidence implicating the gut-brain axis in the etiology of …

