Nature
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October 25, 2021How Plant Polyphenols Benefit Plants—and Their Consumers
This review examines the dual nature of polyphenolic substances created by food plants: protecting growing plants to ensure their survival and enhancing these foods’ nutritional and health advantages for consumers.
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October 11, 2021Exposure to Forest Biodiversity Encourages Immune Regulation
Time spent in natural outdoors settings is a crucial immune-regulating experience for urban dwellers, and especially for children. Direct exposure to forest biomes—or even just forest floor vegetation and dirt—is an effective means of altering balance among circulating immune factors (interleukins, regulatory T cells, etc.) that are key to developing immune tolerance. Biodiversity intervention is of growing importance for the management of dysbiosis and immune imbalance.
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July 20, 2021Certain Senolytic Phytonutrients May Also Trigger the Antioxidant Response
The concept of cellular rejuvenation centers upon encouraging immune-mediated autophagy of aged or dysfunctional ‘senescent’ cells. For maintaining performance of healthy cells, the ability to trigger a robust antioxidant and detoxification response is equally important. This review examines current research on how fifteen phytonutrients that possess both of these qualities may be potentially useful for targeting therapies aimed at transformed senescent cells.
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July 2, 2021Regenerative Agriculture Adapts to Unique Soil Needs
This study describes the evolution of regenerative agriculture as a concept and as a real-world system, and notes its flexibility in addressing the unique soil needs of land areas with varying baseline levels of essential fertility.
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July 2, 2021Regenerative Agriculture Benefits Consumers, Farmers, and Planet Alike
This study compares the regenerative approach to soil health with conventional cropping methods for growing corn, and finds that regenerative practices result in restoration of soil structure and fertility, improvement of biodiversity in fields, and greater profitability for farmers. The researchers suggest that regenerative agriculture may hold answers to many of the most pressing concerns regarding conventional global food production.
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May 18, 2021
Redefining Hygiene for Immune Balance and Microbiome Restoration
In this peer review, six experts in infectious and allergic disease discuss the rise of immune dysfunction in relation to historical changes in human living conditions and lifestyles. They point out how shifting epidemiologic patterns and human behaviors have altered the development of our immune systems and the microbial diversity in our microbiomes.
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May 10, 2021Nature Trains Immunity Towards Tolerance
This critical review proposes that exposure to the diversity of life in natural green and aquatic environments and to the microbiota of social contacts constitutes a necessary immune training that results in immune tolerance.
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March 26, 2021Buckwheat Helps Revitalize “Climate-Smart” Agriculture
Does Himalayan Tartary Buckwheat affect glycemic response? Let’s find out …
