This is the most charming love story ❤️. Imagine falling in love with someone who is suffering (and I mean that in the true sense of the word “suffering”) from bipolar disorder and bouts of psychosis, doing research on your own to find a possible solution, experimenting and then finding a durable cure. Imagine that!
And it all comes down to poo 💩.
It is truly fascinating, and I urge you to watch for yourself:
Check out this amazing research from the University of Florida and Trinity College Dublin:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250821004244.htm
Queuosine is a rare micronutrient crucial for brain health, memory, stress response, and cancer defense. It is “a vitamin-like micronutrient that we can’t make ourselves but can only get from food and our gut bacteria.”
“For over 30 years, scientists have suspected that there had to be a transporter for this nutrient, but no one could find it,” said Valérie de Crécy-Lagard, a UF/IFAS microbiology and cell science distinguished professor and department associate chair, as well as one of the study’s principal investigators. “We’ve been hunting for it for a long time. This discovery opens up a whole new chapter in understanding how the microbiome and our diet can influence the translation of our genes.”
Very iteresting! We are starting to map the microbiota.
Yesterday, my husband and daughter went to an outdoor event during the heat of the day. A conversation about sunscreen popped up, and so I pulled out my Yuka app to check our choices.
Here’s the first choice:
Here’s the second choice. After seeing the score, I threw it in the trash! And that’s a shame because it was pricey.
Here’s the third choice. Winner winner chicken dinner!
CLL brings with it a higher than average risk of skin cancer, so I did the research a while back (that is, I stood in Target and scanned all the choices with Yuka). Native had the best ratings that I could find.
For the record, hats and shirts are my preferred “sunscreen.”
Just wanted to share. Bubbie’s is a brand of fermented foods, and we have tried a couple of their products. They taste great and are fermented so you get a little probiotic boost.
I was thinking the other day that, if every deli and hamburger joint in America started using Bubbie’s pickles, what an improvement we would have in our overall gut health.
Our daughter is with us this summer and I couldn’t be happier. 🙂😍
Tonight, she’s the chef. She made an amazing kale salad that is really healthy and nutritious.
We added a little grilled chicken on top.
Here’s the recipe if you want to give it a try:
Just finished watching the Netflix series American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden with my husband. It’s a very interesting and well-made recounting of our CIA operations in the years after the 9-11 attack.
In episode 3, you meet and get to know William McRaven, a Navy SEAL who has CLL. He looks like he is in the peak of health, both in the recent interviews and in the photos from 2011.
He talks about being diagnosed in 2010 and how he used CLL as a reason to fly back to DC from Afghanistan when he was brought into this secret plan.
https://patientworthy.com/2018/11/22/decorated-admiral-battling-rare-cancer/
If I ever come into a large sum of money I’d like to put my friend Mike through medical school. He’s very smart, patient, and observant and he would do well in the research world.
He recently sent this article my way:
Here are the takeaways:
What I want to know is how could a person know if they have this gut bacteria?
Are there foods you can eat to kill it off?
Not, sure I’ve ever mentioned it here, but did you know that most medical schools in the US don’t require nutrition training?
Maybe that will change soon.🤞 Here’s hoping.
The article ends with this tidbit:
Cases of colorectal cancer are skyrocketing in people under the age of 50, due to unknown causes, doubling in many countries in the last two decades. Another study, led by computational biologist Marcos Díaz Gay, suggested just three months ago that behind this colorectal cancer epidemic is the Escherichia coli toxin. “In young patients, up to 39 years of age, we see that colibactin pattern in one out of every three cases,” stressed Díaz Gay, of the National Cancer Research Center.
I’ve been getting a lot of steps this month as we have our granddog for the month. He’s young and full of energy, and when I walk him, it’s kind of like waterskiing. I’m holding on, and he’s pulling, standing on 2 legs sometimes, darting after every squirrel or rabbit.
My old dog is more of a slow meanderer. He just wants to go slow and smell everything. He’s about 15 years old and getting to be a little hard of hearing.
So, I walk them separately.
Today I gave the old guy a treat. We went in the car (very exciting) to the park (really really exciting) which is across the street from a farm with lots of interesting cow and sheep smells. Dog heaven!
We started on the path and I noticed that the grass was a little dead along the edges. After a while I realized that it was probably just sprayed with herbicide… the line between dead and living grass was just too severe…
What do you think?
It’s a bummer 😕 because, of course, my dog would rather walk on the grass than the paved path. But I don’t want those chemicals on his paws!
Got home and saw this on Instagram.
It’s really hot this week.
I lived most of my life in Florida, where it’s like this all the time: WAY too hot to use the oven for at least 10 months of the year.
There was a cute little diner at the Tahitian Inn on Dale Mabry where we used to meet friends on groggy Sunday mornings. They had an amazing cold plate there… salad greens and three hollowed bell peppers filled with your choice of chicken, tuna, egg, ham, or potato salad.
We made it part of our routine. Summer dinners (and by that, I mean March thru November) were often homemade cold plates, starting with a green salad and adding a bunch of cold sides.
For example:
Last weekend, I made a batch of my yummy purple yams with coconut. Yes, I had the oven on for an hour, but I make enough to snack on all week. It makes a great cold lunch or side dish.
I made lentils, too, which is also great served cold.
My husband made a potato salad and an egg salad, and chopped another pineapple into bite sized pieces.
Anyway, if you’re looking for healthy dishes to throw together for hot summer nights, I suggest you try a cold plate night.
Another quick, cold, plant-based recipe for you. I’m sorry, I don’t have a more exacting recipe. You’re gonna have to use the force on this one.
Enjoy!
Find a bowl you’d like to serve this dish in.
Slice the cabbage very thin. You want enough to fill the bowl approximately 60% full of the shredded cabbage.
Wash the carrots and then either use a hand peeler OR a cheese grater to shred them. Add them to the bowl. These 2 ingredients will take up most of the space in the bowl, so keep adding until it is about 90% full.
Add at least a cup each of sunflower seeds and raisins. Mix well. Salt liberally, unless the sunflower seeds have already done that for you.
Add honey and red wine vinegar in equal amounts to coat the ingredients. Mix well.
It’s crunchy, sweet, salty, and healthy. It doesn’t need to be refrigerated, which makes it perfect for summer, camping, etc.
Once you get the hang of it, swap out white cabbage for red, different nuts or seeds, different dried fruit, fancy vinegars… just make sure you include something crunchy, something sweet, something salty, and something vinegarrey. 😋
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