“What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.”  Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder Many of us here in the Pacific Northwest have been busy enjoying …

The microbial world within us and its link to obesity A patient I saw last week told me a story about being put on prophylactic antibiotics for recurrent bladder infections. Soon after taking this daily medicine she began to gain weight.  A lot of weight. In fact, over the next two years she gained over …