My Public Lab spectrometer arrived! I’ll be using it to create tutorials on how to measure Vitamin C levels in products and other (hopefully) neat stuff! Can’t wait to get started with this little gadget 🙂
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Scientists study how the microbiome of mice’s skin forms to provide insight into our own
Scientists study how the microbiome of mice’s skin forms to provide insight into our own
How the skin microbiome is established—in particular, why the immune system does not attack these bacteria—has been little studied. Now, a team led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has shown that, to establish tolerance by the immune system, colonization of the skin by commensal bacteria occurs during the first few days after birth in mice.
I’m donating my hair!
I’ve been growing my hair out so I can donate it eventually. Finding ways to style it has been tricky, I don’t think this is it.
I was inspired by my incredible friend Francesca, as well as my inability to grow a mo’.
Francesca is also collecting bras to support the “Free the Girls” organization. She’s collected more than 360 so far! If you’re in the Toronto area consider helping out 🙂
By the way, I’m on Instagram! @kindofstephen
The US FDA wants to hear your opinion on “natural” labelling for food
Currently, the US FDA has little to no established rules for what can or cannot be labelled as “natural”.
This has led to a lot of confusion in the food industry and for consumers. Companies are essentially free to label their products as “natural”, which is often a marketing advantage. We see this in cosmetics as well, where many “natural” formulations are largely identical to their conventional ones.
Organic is a regulated term and requires certification. But there’s more confusion and less oversight with natural. Is pasteurization natural? Heat treatment? Irradiation? Mineral and vitamin additives? What will differentiate “natural” from organic?
The FDA currently considers “natural” as ‘nothing artificial or synthetic’, which means no added colours and things that you would expect to not be in food.
You can see why this leaves a lot of grey area.
Until February 10th, 2016, the US FDA wants to hear your opinions on what requirements food and its production must meet to be labelled “natural”.
Read more about the US FDA’s request for information and submit your comment!
Please share this link, so the decision isn’t just made by food companies and lobbyists!
Thank you 🙂
One Course of Antibiotics Can Affect Diversity of Microorganisms in the Gut
One Course of Antibiotics Can Affect Diversity of Microorganisms in the Gut
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“My message would be that antibiotics should only be used when really, really necessary. Even a single antibiotic treatment in healthy individuals contributes to the risk of resistance development and leads to long-lasting detrimental shifts in the gut microbiome.”
The full published paper can be found here: http://mbio.asm.org/content/6/6/e01693-15.full
Infographic from the CDC Threat Report 2013, Antibiotic resistance threats in the United States
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I’ll be starting another contest soon for a Marc Jacobs O!mega Lash Volumizing Mascara and something else to be announced, soon!
Thank you everyone who entered 🙂
