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In the early 1960’s, plastics were hot. Advances in plastic chemistry and technology created the ubiquitous plastic bag. Young designers started using plastic in furniture, dishes, ceiling tiles, clothing … but by the end of the decade, plastic had already come to signify cheap and artificial. In the...
Rustic wrap makes a new car look like a rusty old clunker. It’s like a Q-boat, but in reverse. The original Q-boats were merchant ships designed as a lure for WW2 U-boats. They looked like easy targets but carried concealed weaponry, so if a U-boat surfaced they had...
Vaccine resistance is growing. This should not come as a surprise to anyone, because resistance to intervention is a ground rule of evolutionary biology. Take antibiotics. Over time, if you apply an external threat to a genetically unstable population of bacteria, a cell will emerge with a mutation...
Big Pharma’s profits continue to rise, public health continues to fall. There are structural reasons for this disconnect, including historical, financial and philosophical elements. By resolving these we can launch a new form of healthcare, and better health for all. (more…)
The multi-national food companies are killing us in unprecedented numbers, but the darkest hour is just before the dawn. Enlightened individuals in the food industry are looking for ways to develop and market the next generation of genuinely functional food products to better informed consumers. Big Pharma uses...
We create volatile fingerprints that can be sampled in our secretions, excretions and the air around us. These have forensic value - and diagnostic value too. You’ve heard of genomics, proteomics and metabolomics. Next up is volatilomics, the study of Volatile Organic Compounds. Science is rife with acronyms...
Abstract: Food animals have characteristic tastes and smells which are profoundly affected by what they eat. The same principles apply to people. Despite the dog Latin on the Pentagon black ops badge patch, we don’t taste like chicken. We taste more like pork, which is why, in long-ago...
I had already written a post about taste in the Twilight Zone, but a lot of people asked me to follow up on the spectrum and fertility articles. What about the children? Adults are achieving more chronic degenerative disease than ever before, thanks to our degenerate diets and...
The same factors that drive chronic ill health also drive infertility. Damping chronic inflammation and improving your microbiome are two steps towards a successful pregnancy, and a healthy baby. Infertility is increasing dramatically (1-3), so much so that one in six couples today are unable to conceive in...
Our children are being poisoned. Autism and disorders such as ADD and ADHD are likely caused by mal-programming of the brain in utero. This is largely due to chronic inflammation, caused in turn by our out-of-control food industry. The spectrum disorders are therefore easily preventable. Our political system...