Katherine Courage on How Ancient Foods Can Feed our Microbiome

06/10/19 • 53 min

Kriben Govender (Honours Degree in Food Science and Technology) has a fascinating conversation with journalist, Katherine Courage author of the book: Cultured: How Ancient Foods can feed our Microbiome. We discuss the important discovery of the microbiome and how to nurture our microbiome for optimal health through diet and fermented foods. Katherine takes us on a journey around the world as we explore fermented foods from countries like Korea, Japan, Switzerland and Greece. Bio: Katherine Harmon Courage is an award-winning freelance journalist, editor, and author. She has written for The New York Times, Wired, Gourmet, Popular Science, Prevention, ESPN The Magazine, as well as numerous websites including NationalGeographic.com, Time.com, Oprah.com, NPR.org, FastCompany.com, and Nature.com. Her work ranges from breaking science news to features about food. And she has dabbled in podcasts and video along the way. Prior to becoming an independent journalist, she worked as a reporter and editor at Scientific American. Her second book, Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome is out now from Penguin Random House. She is also the author of Octopus! The Most Mysterious Creature In the Sea. And her work was featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013. Courage has been a Media Fellow at Harvard University Medical School, a National Institutes of Health Medicine in the Media Fellow at Dartmouth College, and a Health Journalism Fellow at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her work has received a Mark of Excellence for In-Depth Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists, National Finalist commendation for Outstanding Student Reporting from the Society of Environmental Journalists, and Best Story about the Outdoors award from the Missouri Press Association. She has spoken across the U.S. and abroad and appeared on national and international radio, television, and podcasts. She lives in Longmont, Colorado, with her husband and their daughter. In her spare time, she runs marathons and competes in triathlons–and is turning her yard into a fruit and vegetable garden. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a bachelor’s in English from Vassar College. Follow her on Twitter at @KHCourage and on Facebook for more about health, science, microbes, and, of course, octopuses. Topics discussed:

Explanatory journalism in a world full of new information
New Science of the Microbiome
The Ecology of the body
The Human Microbiome Project
Definition of the Microbiome
Microbiome and Disease
How do we acquire our Microbiome?
Understanding the Microbiome, Family Planning, and Preparation for Child Birth
Tips for New Mums
Fermented Foods and the Microbiome
The transient nature of probiotics and fermented foods
Captain Cook and Sauerkraut
Korean Ferments
Eating ferments through the fermentation process to improve diversity
Raw Milk Alpine Cheeses from Switzerland
The Microbiome of Fermentation Equipment
Yoghurt Making in Greece
Fermented Table Olives
Prebiotics and Fibre Rich Foods
Wild Foraged Foods
Small and diverse meals in Japan
Japanese Ferments
Fostering a balanced microbiome by lowering meat consumption
Seafood and the Microbiome
Cultured Foods: How Ancient Foods can feed ou...

Explanatory journalism in a world full of new information
New Science of the Microbiome
The Ecology of the body
The Human Microbiome Project
Definition of the Microbiome
Microbiome and Disease
How do we acquire our Microbiome?
Understanding the Microbiome, Family Planning, and Preparation for Child Birth
Tips for New Mums
Fermented Foods and the Microbiome
The transient nature of probiotics and fermented foods
Captain Cook and Sauerkraut
Korean Ferments
Eating ferments through the fermentation process to improve diversity
Raw Milk Alpine Cheeses from Switzerland
The Microbiome of Fermentation Equipment
Yoghurt Making in Greece
Fermented Table Olives
Prebiotics and Fibre Rich Foods
Wild Foraged Foods
Small and diverse meals in Japan
Japanese Ferments
Fostering a balanced microbiome by lowering meat consumption
Seafood and the Microbiome
Cultured Foods: How Ancient Foods can feed ou...

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Dr Laszlo Boros on Deuterium Depletion for Optimal Health

Kriben Govender (Honours Degree in Food Science and Technology) has a mind-blowing conversation with Dr Laszlo Boros from The Deuterium Depletion Centre on the dangers of excess deuterium and strategies to naturally deplete deuterium from your body for optimal health. We discuss the impact of deuterium on our mitochondria, gut and microbiome. Bio: Dr Boros holds a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from the Albert Szent-Györgyi School of Medicine, Szeged, Hungary. Dr Boros is currently a Professor of Pediatrics, Endocrinology and Metabolism at the UCLA School of Medicine, an investigator at the UCLA Clinical & Translational Science (CTSI) and the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institutes, and he is also the Chief Scientific Advisor of SiDMAP, LLC. Dr Boros studies functional biochemistry for drug testing that involves library screening, lead optimization and in vitro and in vivo phenotype profiling. The core technology involves studying natural and disease/drug-induced variations in stable non-radiating harmless isotope variations via cross-talk among metabolites in living systems with 13C-glucose as the labelling substrate. Dr Boros is the co-inventor of the targeted 13C tracer fate association study (TTFAS) platform to study deuterium as an oncoisotope and its depletion by mitochondrial matrix water exchanges to prevent oncoisotopic cell transformation by deuterium. Dr Boros trained as house staff in his medical school in gastroenterology after receiving a research training fellowship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Dr Boros was a Visiting Scholar at the Essen School of Medicine in Germany and also worked as a Research Scientist at the Ohio State University, Department of Surgery, in the historic Zollinger-Ellison laboratory. Dr. Boros is the recipient of the C. Williams Hall Outstanding Publication Award from the Academy of Surgical Research of the United States (1997), the Richard E. Weitzman Memorial Research Award from the University of California (2001), the Excellence in Clinical Research Award from the General Clinical Research Center at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (2004) and Public Health Impact Investigator Award of the United States Food and Drug Administration (2011). Dr Boros serves as an associate editor for the journals Metabolic Therapeutics, Pancreas and Metabolomics and member of the Presidential Subcommittee for Hungarian Science Abroad, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Section of Medical Sciences (V). Dr Boros is an Academic Editor of Medicine®, a high impact weekly periodical publishing clinical and translational research papers worldwide. Topics discussed:

What is Deuterium?
The significant of deuterium in biological systems
The detrimental effects of excess deuterium
Mitochondria and Mitochondrial nanomotors
Structural impact of deuterium on DNA and Proteins
What are Peroxisomes?
Melatonin activation
What is Metabolic Water and how is produced daily
Dr Gabor Somlyai - Cancer models and treatment with deuterium depleted water
What's the normal levels of deuterium in drinking water?
Where does deuterium come from?
Deuterium levels of drinking water 20,000 years ago
Optimal deuterium level of drinking water
What has the deuterium level increased in modern times
The impact of climate change on deuterium levels
Processed foods and deuterium
Deuterium and chronic diseases
Carbohydrate, Fat Metabolism and Deuterium content
Grass Fed Ketogenic Diet/ Natural Ketogenic and Deuterium Depletion
Photosynthesis a Deuterium Depletion process in plants
Fruits, Fructose, HFCS, and Deuterium
Gut Microbiome and deuterium depletion
Prokaryotes (yeasts) and deuterium depletion
Deuterium and Cancer formation
The upper threshold for deuterium
The lower threshold for deuterium
Breathing and deuterium depletion
The importance of red Light on Mitochondrial function
Light, Sleep, Melatonin and Deuterium Depletion
Breast cancer may be likelier to spread to bone with nighttime dim-light exposure

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What is Deuterium Depleted Water?
When to drink Deuterium Depleted Water?
Type 1 diabetes mellitus succ...

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Dr Gabor Somlyai on Deuterium and Cancer

Kriben Govender (Honours Degree in Food Science and Technology) and James Shadrach (Honours Degree in Psychology) have a groundbreaking discussion with Dr Gabor Somlyai on the role that the hydrogen isotope, deuterium plays in the growth of cancer cells and using deuterium depleted water as a cancer treatment. We also discuss using deuterium depleted water as a cancer prevention strategy and other benefits like improved gut health and athletic performance. Bio: Dr Gábor Somlyai graduated as a biologist from the University of Szeged in 1982. Between 1982 and 1990 he worked for the Department of Plant Pathology, Plant Protection Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He had a scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences while studying for his PhD and defended his thesis in molecular biology in 1988. Dr Somlyai spent six months at the Georg-August University in Göttingen on a DFG scholarship after receiving his PhD. He followed that with a postdoctoral fellowship in the field of genetic engineering and gene mapping at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. In the wake of the Hungarian, Nobel-prize winning scientist Albert Szent-Györgyi – who said that the true cause of cancer should be looked for at the sub-molecular level – Gábor began his examining the biological importance of naturally occurring deuterium as a senior research fellow at the Hungarian Institute of Oncology in 1990. In 1993 Gabor established HYD Ltd. for Research and Development (now HYD LLC. for Cancer Research and Drug Development) to carry out cancer research and drug development based on the proprietary procedure called deuterium depletion. Dr Somlyai served as the scientific director of HYD Ltd. between 1993 and 1997 before becoming the CEO of the company. In 2012 he also began serving as the General Director of HYD’s parent company, HYD Pharma Inc. His book, Defeating Cancer!, was published in Hungary in 2000. It has since been published in Romania, Japan, China, South-Korea and the U.S.A. Gábor is a holder of numerous international patents, an author of more than 40 scientific publications, and is a highly sought-after speaker at international conferences. Topics discussed: