The Last Post
OnAntibiotics are dead. Long live Postbiotics! After investing a lot of money in research and far larger amounts in marketing,...
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Dr. Paul Clayton
Mental Exercise
OnThe Romans gave us the aqueduct, sanitation, the roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public order and baths (1). But apart...
Kelp Wanted
OnThe sea is a cruel mistress, especially if you are a species of seaweed. Marine algae face many threats. These...
Stop the Rot
OnDoctors sicken and die, just like everybody else. But they do it a little differently; about 4% die by their...
New wine, old bottles
OnPrevious piece on population decline (‘Crowd Control’) touched on the subject of neo-vampirism. Two hours after it posted, a group...
Crowd Control
OnAfter half a century of being hectored about the dangers of over-population (1), the latest demographic research indicates that we...
The Point of Bliss
OnIn the dismal science of economics, the Bliss Point refers to a quantity of consumption where any further increase would...
Skin in The Game
OnThe ageing process incorporates intrinsic and extrinsic components. This is obvious in skin, where the intrinsic ageing that shows in...
Is Parkinsonism contagious?
OnIn an earlier post I cherry-picked some of the data linking dysbiosis to Parkinsonian Syndrome (PS). Dysbiosis is not the...
Mind Your Head
OnWorldwide, an estimated 50 million people are living with dementia (1). Projections (which I believe are conservative) show this rising...