Microbes have a grand influence on our everyday lives and our long-term evolution. It’s very much their planet, and we’re just living in it. Interviewed by Rick Kleffel Mention the word “microbe” and most people will think “disease.

  Close your eyes. Imagine you are at the beach. Interviewed by Rick Kleffel One of the great revolutions in science at this moment is our willingness to trust that science will explain, eventually, much of what we intuit to be true.

  A balanced microbiome can help health & healing. Interviewed by Rick Kleffel We’ve always seen ourselves as individual beings comprised of a number of sub-systems; circulatory, respiratory, etc – with which things may go wrong.

“More important than knowledge is actually some solid experience connecting to our own internal wisdom.” Interviewed by Rick Kleffel We’re ever on the lookout for a new set of rules to guide us through our lives.

 “Plan your pregnancy. Start taking your prenatal vitamins early in your pregnancy, or when you are trying to get pregnant.” Interviewed by Rick Kleffel For nearly 30 years, the go-to guide for couples who were seeking information about having the heal...

So much about health care is listening to stories. Interview by Rick Kleffel When I spoke with Brown, we focused not on what happens in the book, so much as we did on what happens in her head when she’s out and about nursing.

You enjoy it, you pay attention as you’re eating; you are present with your food. Interviewed by Rick Kleffel We’re told that we are experiencing an obesity epidemic. If being fat is the disease, then it follows that dieting is the cure.

About two million life-years have been saved by organ transplantation in the US alone… the potential [of] how many lives it could save is about 1.5 times the amount than would be saved by curing cancer. Interview by Rick Kleffel Some science is easily ...

  We are digging our graves with our knives & forks. Interviewed by Rick Kleffel Our approach to illness, and especially to major organ failure, such as heart disease, is largely reactive, and based on the cutting edge of both surgery and pharmacology....

“What does power do to the human nervous system?” Interviewed by Rick Kleffel Few words are more front-loaded than “power.” When we hear it, we bristle, we tense, and our stress response kicks in. Dacher Keltner took a life-long fascination with the wo...