March 2016

Let’s briefly recap: Plants trap their valuable minerals and nutrients in a strong web of fibres. To digest those fibres, animals need the help of microbes. Fibre-eating microbes need help to stay happy and healthy. A healthy gut microbiome needs a healthy skin microbiome. The two are linked at either end. Skin microbes need shade […]

Without the Sahara desert, the Amazon rain forest could not exist. Surprised? Apparently, it’s true. The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. Dust. Mighty desert winds sweep mineral-laden sand into the upper layers of the atmosphere. This dust gently settles over the Amazon basin, supplying important nutrients (especially phosphorous) to the poor soils