Healthy In Oregon

How important is a healthy metabolism, which is to say, keeping blood sugar levels down? Well, that depends on how important quality brain function is to you.

Could Alzheimer's Be a Disorder of Energy Metabolism? Failure of mitochondrial function may contribute to the development of late onset Alzheimer's disease, a new study reports.

"You are what you eat." ...And breath and walk through and sit next to.

One's digestive biome (environment) may play a larger role in the volume of fat one packs around than even genes. Find out how in this TED Talks video.

How our microbes make us who we are Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that have a huge — and largely unexplored — role in our health. “The three pounds of microbes that you carry around with you might be more important than every single gene you car...