Sublime

In Europe from Graeco-Roman antiquity onwards, and also among the great Asian civilizations, the medical profession systematically replaced transcendental explanations by positing a natural basis for disease and healing. Among educated lay people and physicians alike, the body became viewed as integral to law-governed cosmic elements and regular pr

Lazebnik argued that biology is using the wrong language—a qualitative and sometimes personalized picture of “this component speaks to that one,” rather than the true circuit diagram of an electrical engineer. Lazebnik’s somewhat tongue-in-cheek paper made an extremely pertinent observation: the modus operandi of much of experimental biology might

natural compounds activates and amplifies the genes responsible for the production of a vast complex of protective and life-sustaining detoxification enzymes and antioxidants. Among these are curcumin, which comes from turmeric; green tea extract; resveratrol; sulphoraphane, derived from broccoli; and the omega-3 fat, DHA.

Together, the microbes living on the human body contain 4.4 million genes – this is the microbiome: the collective genomes of the microbiota. These genes collaborate in running our bodies alongside our 21,000 human genes. By that count, you are just half a per cent human.