Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Articles exploring the microbial communities that live in and on the human body and the many ways food, environment, digestion and lifestyle influence them. This section also follows the connections between the human microbiome and the microbial life of soil.
We are excited to announce we are opening a small group Live Blood Analysis immersion workshop here at Living Ground in southern Ecuador. This is an experience where people come to learn how to observe their own blood in real time, understand what they are seeing, and begin to make …
Understanding what is happening inside the body during chronic illness is both a scientific question and a deeply personal one. Modern medicine often relies heavily on laboratory data to tell the story. Blood tests measure enzymes, hormones, minerals, immune markers, and metabolic byproducts. Imaging technologies reveal structures inside tissues. Genetic …
Dimethyl sulfoxide, better known as DMSO, is one of the most unusual compounds ever explored in biology. For decades it has appeared in thousands of scientific papers and has been studied across many areas of physiology and medicine. Most of us don’t know about DMSO and I am not sure …
In nature, nothing suddenly collapses without a long chain of shifts that come before it. Forests decline slowly before trees fall. Rivers change direction before they dry. Soil loses life before crops fail. The human body follows the same pattern. When roughly one in three people will face cancer during …
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That is not a dark statement; it is simply ecological truth. We are born into matter and microbes, we move through seasons of growth and decay, and we return what we borrowed. The illusion that we can engineer permanence, sterilize risk, or purify ourselves out of vulnerability is one of …
Modern blood sugar dysfunction did not appear overnight. It developed alongside the rise of refined foods, concentrated sweeteners, processed carbohydrates, sedentary lifestyles, and the increasing separation between humans and the living systems that once regulated metabolism naturally. Today, millions of people are moving toward pre-diabetes and metabolic dysfunction without realizing …
We talk about “B vitamins” as if they are a single substance you can swallow, measure, or fix with a pill, but in the body they behave more like a living network. Vitamin B is never just one thing, and that is where the misunderstanding usually begins. They are a …
Cholesterol has become one of the most misunderstood substances in the body. It is often spoken about as if it were a toxin that must be lowered at all costs, yet it is one of the most essential molecules for life. Every cell membrane depends on it. Hormones depend on …
I had never even heard of the curry tree before coming to Ecuador. Now I cannot imagine this place without her. She is one of the most beautiful small trees in the garden, graceful and decorative, with glossy green leaves that seem to shimmer in the light. Birds adore her. …