25 November

Germ theory is like a novel, looks a bit boring on the outside but is fantastically interesting up close. The detour though Pasteur and antibiotics is coming to a close in medicine. The Koch and Pasteur theories were all about treating an individual patient and individual disease organisms. But germs, like us, live in ecosystems. So that's where they're going to need to go next, and it's underway. Eat your fermented foods!