Your average adult has ~10 trillion human cells and ~100 trillion microorganisms present in their body, so on a pure numbers basis we are genetically less than 10% human. (1) Considering that the womb is a sterile place during pregnancy, there is obviously a major change in the microbiome from birth to adulthood. The choices… Read more »

“When does a kid ever get to sit in the yard with a stick anymore?” – George Carlin The human body was designed for the… well… earth. And the earth has lots of dirt, germs, animals and different environments. Modern medicine however, is largely influenced by allopathic reasoning, which portrays most germs as pathogens that… Read more »

Antibiotics came into widespread medical use in the 1940s. They give us the ability to deal with emergency infections in a powerful way. Before antibiotics, people were more likely to die because of diarrhea and basic infections – or from simple sickness in old age. However, antibiotics work by indiscriminately killing your body’s bacteria, both… Read more »

You may already be familiar with dairy kefir, which is available in the dairy aisles of a number of national grocers. Water Kefir is a close relative of dairy kefir and contains many of the same strains. Water kefir cultures originate from a variety of different plants in nature in areas where sugar and water… Read more »

I started working on the concept for Obi all the way back in early 2009 in Santa Cruz CA. I came up with the idea while hiking at my favorite spot in Big Sur. I wanted to create something that took cutting edge concepts from the high-end niche health community and morph it into a… Read more »