Developing Hunger Beyond Personal Craving Nutritional exchange is not linear. A piece of fruit is a swell of water, containing minerals, vitamins, fibers, polyphenols and calories to sustain what makes our bodies thrum. When we bite into it, we consume everything about what it contains and where it has come from. The tree, yes. Also, the soil, air and water that nourished that tree. We often conveniently remove ourselves from this cycle. When we eat something like an apple, we become more than we were and part of that is what is gained by working with this complex microbial system within us. Consider what convinces you to begin moving in a new directly. All too often we humans change when this sophisticated sharing system within the body has already begun to fail. If the framework we have set to is “take the body for granted,” we may not shift until we have a new framework in place—and a compelling reason to make the potentially uncomfortable leap. What AI lacks is curiosity. Curiosity is the human input into the AI equation. Eating certain foods provides the nutrients that allow the brain to be curious. Maybe experiment. It starts with what you put in your mouth, adding inputs like “quinoa,” “walnuts,” “carrots” and “eggs” one bite at a time. 1.Probiotics Regulate Gut Microbiota: An Effective Method to Improve Immunity 2.Emerging connections between gut microbiome bioenergetics and chronic metabolic diseases. 3.Short chain fatty acids: the messengers from down below 4.Butyrate’s role in human health and the current progress towards its clinical application to treat gastrointestinal disease 5.Unveiling the Gut Microbiome: How Junk Food Impacts the Gut 6.Coffee Drinkers Have Distinct Gut Microbiomes
Julie Larson Julie Marie Larson has an MFA in English from MSUM where she focused on poetry and creative nonfiction. In 2021 she became a certified teacher of mindfulness mediation through the School of Positive Transformation and regularly braids meditation into a healthy writing practice. Julie has worked at the dietary supplement company Swanson Health Products for the last 14 years as a writer, proofreader and researcher. The last several years she has focused on researching the function and potentiation of herbal medicines, fungi, nootropics within the human microbiome. She believes this focus of study will continue to provide insight on how humans can supplement their diet for optimum cognitive and body functioning—including and especially the creation of various types of art. She is deeply influenced by a subconscious/symbolic/Jungian approach to writing and instruction based on the idea of alchemizing pain, anxiety and overthinking into art and how those fusions and intersections might just slowly-but-surely make the world a better place—for all living beings.
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