Imagine being a brain scientist, or a pothead (or both) in the 1990’s, and waking up to this headline1: That is exactly what happened in December 1992, when the field reported two ground-breaking discoveries in a single issue of Science2 (the NY Times of modern scientific research). Scientists had finally identified a specific receptor–the…
The idea for this article comes from a random morning where for some reason, instead of going through my morning routine mindlessly as usual, I actually decided to think about it. I reached out to pick up my toothbrush from amongst a handful that belonged to my family, and I could not, for the life…
Your body can encode about 25,ooo genes. But there’s another 5 million genes that are produced by the bacteria that live in your gut. That’s more than 99% of the total genetic material of your body! (1) The gut is very commonly referred to as the ‘second brain’ of our body, and for very…