Notes

 I  'm making notes as I go through the mountains of links and bottomless wealth of information about my quest.

This will be random and informal.

1. Inflammation = KEY FACTOR in all sorts of mystery afflictions. Where does it come from and why?
2. ALL sugars must have a natural base: fruits etc. NO ADDED SUGARS. That regrettably means no more ice cream, no more whipped cream. Dark chocolate is okay, but in very small quantities (aforementioned increase in good bacteria noted with dark chocolate ingestion. Flavonoids, too!)
3. Oligosaccharides = good
4. What the FODMAP??? Says #3 is BAD
5. Look into Bifidobacteria (lactobacillus?)
6. Read this! Possibly Motherlode #2 (very informative)
7. Which leads to this

04/23/16

1. Great to see that a multitude of microbiologist are on the job. This whole field is going to revolutionize humanity. It's like the discovery that there were things like bacteria and viruses in the first place, leading to vaccines and other discoveries that hugely, hugely improved humanity's lifespans.

Like the discovery that mosquitoes were the things that transmitted the diseases, and not just the "mal air" around swamps and jungles. This is just as groundbreaking! You will see.

...With tears and toiling breath,
I find thy cunning seeds,
O million-murdering Death."—Sir Ronald Ross, upon his discovery that mosquitoes carried the malaria parasite
2. Don't worry, I haven't yet considered using worms to help me change my gut biome. But some of you might. Go in the back yard and start digging.
3. Two names you will encounter over and over again in this field of study: Bacteroides (or Bacteroidetes, as it's confusingly sometimes called) and Firmicutes (which one is a good guy and which is a bad guy? Not too hard to guess!)