Your Microbiome: Friends with Benefits

What are you? A human being, of course, but what is a human being? Let's leave out the debate over the invisible, intangible aspect of you for the moment, that is, the "being" and look simply at the "human" part of the equation, your physical body. What are you, physically speaking? Biology textbooks tell us …

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Non-Suppressive Pediatrics

The practice of medicine took an interesting turn in the United States roughly a century ago. The net result of that turn is that the majority of interventions are suppressive in nature. This is particularly true in the field of pediatric care. Symptoms and illness are not always a bad thing. In fact, more often …

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