A poetic and loving inquiry into creating sustainable, plant-based practices, EarthGut awakens readers to the questions we must address to prevent humanity’s destructive trajectory. It is the story of our journey through peace, love, and the rich microbial realm into becoming grounded in a world rooted in change and disconnection. We are deeply connected with the earth, and its health or mistreatment is manifest in our guts. Within these pages, love, science, and story lead us to reflect on our role as stewards of the earth and each other, a reminder of our responsibility to be of service and to remain well for the next seven generations. Thus, EarthGut is centered on knowledge and a heartfelt sense of why peace, love, and our microbiome matters in these precarious times. Our awakening is critical and requires an exploration of both our gut health and our interconnection with the earth. Full of valuable knowledge and practices to help readers begin their journey to wellness, EarthGut is not only meant for seekers of health and individuals with digestive disorders and disease, but also to people with other health issues and those seeking to practice peace. It helps to connect the dots along our journey in a way that is gentle and real, full of both story and science. Embrace the journey to living a healthful, purposeful life. In the reunion of peace, love, and microbes, we find our remembrance, our way home to a kinder planet. There is hope for all to heal.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of metabonomics and gut microbiota research from molecular analysis to population-based global health considerations. The topics include the discussion of the applications in relation to metabonomics and gut microbiota in nutritional research, in health and disease and a review of future therapeutical, nutraceutical and clinical applications. It also examines the translatability of systems biology approaches into applied clinical research and to patient health and nutrition. The rise in multifactorial disorders, the lack of understanding of the molecular processes at play and the needs for disease prediction in asymptomatic conditions are some of the many questions that system biology approaches are well suited to address. Achieving this goal lies in our ability to model and understand the complex web of interactions between genetics, metabolism, environmental factors and gut microbiota. Being the most densely populated microbial ecosystem on earth, gut microbiota co-evolved as a key component of human biology, essentially extending the physiological definition of humans. Major advances in microbiome research have shown that the contribution of the intestinal microbiota to the overall health status of the host has been so far underestimated. Human host gut microbial interaction is one of the most significant human health considerations of the present day with relevance for both prevention of disease via microbiota-oriented environmental protection as well as strategies for new therapeutic approaches using microbiota as targets and/or biomarkers. In many aspects, humans are not a complete and fully healthy organism without their appropriate microbiological components. Increasingly, scientific evidence identifies gut microbiota as a key biological interface between human genetics and environmental conditions encompassing nutrition. Microbiota dysbiosis or variation in metabolic activity has been associated with metabolic deregulation (e.g. obesity, inflammatory bowel disease), disease risk factor (e.g. coronary heart disease) and even the aetiology of various pathologies (e.g. autism, cancer), although causal role into impaired metabolism still needs to be established. Metabonomics and Gut Microbiota in Nutrition and Disease serves as a handbook for postgraduate students, researchers in life sciences or health sciences, scientists in academic and industrial environments working in application areas as diverse as health, disease, nutrition, microbial research and human clinical medicine.

The End of Alzheimer's: The Brain and Beyond, Second Edition is the first comprehensive overview on the molecular basis of Alzheimer's outside of the brain, merging the most recent findings within the field into a single book. It aims to educate the reader on the many overlooked aspects of Alzheimer's disease that occur outside the brain. This book uniquely provides step-by-step, peer-reviewed evidence that the current research model may be misguided and that a new and emerging model is more accurate. It carefully outlines the molecular research in Alzheimer's outside the brain and argues that a more thorough, whole-body diagnosis will provide better answers about its causes and lead to new treatments. It is beneficial to researchers who need to be apprised of the emerging science on the causes of Alzheimer's, and will hopefully redirect many into new avenues of cellular research and discovery. - Comprehensive literature-based summary of the current state of molecular Alzheimer's disease research - Details the shortcomings of the prevailing model and therapeutics in development - Reviews blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's and their link to amyloid- and Tau-independent causes outside the brain - Describes the tissues outside the brain impacted by Alzheimer's and the underlying molecular causes - Explains the whole-body risks associated with Alzheimer's, along with concomitant measures to slow or prevent the disease - Provides a protocol to properly research, evaluate, measure, diagnose, and potentially treat Alzheimer's patients

A poetic and loving inquiry into creating sustainable, plant-based practices, EarthGut awakens readers to the questions we must address to prevent humanity's destructive trajectory. It is the story of our journey through peace, love, and the rich microbial realm into becoming grounded in a world rooted in change and disconnection. We are deeply connected with the earth, and its health or mistreatment is manifest in our guts. Within these pages, love, science, and story lead us to reflect on our role as stewards of the earth and each other, a reminder of our responsibility to be of service and to remain well for the next seven generations. Thus, EarthGut is centered on knowledge and a heartfelt sense of why peace, love, and our microbiome matters in these precarious times. Our awakening is critical and requires an exploration of both our gut health and our interconnection with the earth. Full of valuable knowledge and practices to help readers begin their journey to wellness, EarthGut is not only meant for seekers of health and individuals with digestive disorders and disease, but also to people with other health issues and those seeking to practice peace. It helps to connect the dots along our journey in a way that is gentle and real, full of both story and science. Embrace the journey to living a healthful, purposeful life. In the reunion of peace, love, and microbes, we find our remembrance, our way home to a kinder planet. There is hope for all to heal....

Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2020! "A terrifying tour de force." --James Rollins "Readers will be riveted." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she lives in quiet anonymity, convinced her days in space are over. She's wrong. A large alien object has entered the solar system on a straight course toward Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate. Out of time and out of options, NASA turns to Jansen. But as the object reveals its secrets, Jansen and her crew find themselves in a desperate struggle for survival -- against the cold vacuum of space, and something far, far worse... "Breathless, compulsive reading." --Christopher Golden "A suspenseful, fast-paced story of first contact." --Kirkus

If there is one piece of advice that every doctor, dietician and nutritionist agrees on, it is this: eat more plants. But that doesn’t mean you have to compromise on flavour or enjoyment. Nourish yourself and your environment with these 70 plant-based recipes from naturopath Gemma Davis and chef Tracy Noelle. Packed with glorious Asian flavours, vegetables, herbs and spices, these exciting recipes are creative, tasty and filling – and they have the bonus of being good for you. From nutritious breakfasts, to punchy wraps, salads, soups, noodles and veggie bowls, plus luscious sweet treats, these vegan recipes from The Compassionate Kitchen will have you craving all their plant goodness for maximum energy, balance and pleasure.