Fermentation meet-up in Basel!

? Second fermentation meet-up in Basel! ? Spread the word real fast and come and join us! Hope to discuss a little bit more about pickling, as autumn really is the season for this practice. Do you have any questions or want to share your experience, do join us! The...

Start the mud fight !

Finally, someone who's confirming the health benefits of outdoor play for children: Let the children play .. .. ? Outside!  ? In Nature ?!  in the dirt ? ! Let them.. ..besmirch each other! Let them.. ..role in it! Let them.. .. eat it! Why, because in this way micro...

DIY: Kombucha skin cream

Thought I'd post a recipe for a kombucha skin cream which I tried today.. There are thousands of ways to do this.. nothing fancy,  just went with my gut.. and I suppose it's flora :) Let me know what you think!

Pro-probiotics scrutinized

The opinion piece by news.discovery.com about whether probiotics are beneficial for a healthy gut provides some interesting food for thought, based on a Danish study. The study found that while, an dysbalanced gut flora (irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis...

Zika does not like Wolbachia spp

Exciting news on the Zika virus front! Researchers have now found that mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia pipientis are at a reduced risk to become infected with Zika virus. The prevalence of Zika virus infection was significantly reduced in mosquitoes infected with...

Probiotics and Post-traumatic stress disorder

I hate wars, I cannot understand people that volunteer to go fight in (someone else's) wars and I cannot possibly fathom research that is being sponsored to help people who get PTSD because they volunteered to go to war and come back totally traumatized (what did they...