Microbiome by Anatomy Insider licensed from Adobe Stock

Wake Up And Smell The Prevotella! (A beneficial gut microbe)

Stop telling yourself “I eat healthy” and a pill is all you need —

If most people understood just how badly traditional U.S. medicine and our food system had failed them, they would be very angry.

But most people don’t get how bad it really is.

I do a 5k nature walk twice a week in our local parks here in SW Florida. We can have up to 7 and 8 people at a time, but lately, it’s just been me and Gambit, our Jack Russell Terrier.

I’m 60 years old — I’ll be 61 in a month, and Gambit will be 16.

Gambit is so excited to go that he not only cries when we stop at the park, he talks — it sounds like he’s saying “Hooray! Hooray!”

Our local group is called Transformation Wellness and the idea is: transform yourself and your life into more of what you want you want it to be.

When I talk with people about their health and wellbeing, I find that so many people in our age range (not Pettigrew, of course) have chronic health problems. Just about everyone is taking blood pressure or cholesterol…