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Yesterday's Light, Today's Biology

On mitochondria, minerals, and the chemistry of herbal medicine Most explanations of energy in the body stop at something along the lines of; we eat food, food becomes fuel, fuel becomes energy. It...

Scent as Medicine

On the limbic system, ritual, and the impact of scent on the body, brain and emotions. Something happens in the space of a single breath, long before there is time to think about it. A molecule ent...

LIGHT · ELEMENTS · BIOLOGY · ECOLOGY — In conversation.

There is a connectedness to something greater hidden inside every living thing, and I find myself returning to it often. Light meets the elements. The elements become biology. Biology, in relations...

THE LIVING PRISM; A framework for restoring biological coherence

Biology has a way of returning us to the same question, approached from different directions. We have traced light through the machinery of photosynthesis, through the molecular architecture of pig...

THE BIOLOGY OF LIGHT; Pigments, Plants and the Molecular Architecture of Translation

Before there were forests, flowers or mammals, there was light. The young Earth was a profoundly different world. Its atmosphere contained little oxygen. Its continents were largely barren. There w...

THE PRISMATIC BODY; How living systems translate light into biology

We have long been taught to think about health through the language of chemistry. Carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals. These are undeniably important. Yet beneath chemistry lies another lan...

THE MICROBIOME OF PLACE

We have become increasingly aware of what we eat. But what about what we breathe? We often think of the microbiome as something shaped by diet, supplements and digestive health. But every day we ...

BEYOND WILLPOWER: UNDERSTANDING APPETITE AND CRAVINGS

What we crave is not always determined by conscious choice. Hunger, satiety and food preferences are shaped by a complex conversation between the brain, hormones, nervous system and microbiome. A...

BIOSTIMULANTS: THE SUBSTANCES THAT SHAPE HEALTH THROUGH SIGNALS

The body is not simply a machine requiring inputs.It is a living system responding to information. Much of modern nutrition has been built around the idea of deficiency: identifying what is lacking...

UNDERSTANDING THE BODY BEYOND LAB RANGES

Laboratory testing can provide valuable insight into health, physiology and underlying dysfunction. In many cases, pathology results help identify significant deficiencies, disease processes or are...