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Scientists are exploring evidence that major depression may in part be a gut feeling, orchestrated by the microbiome trillions of microorganisms living in and around our bodies, which influence our health and well-being.
In a series of studies, researchers are discovering that the microbial menagerie living in our digestive tract may help regulate brain function, including mental health. Recent findings by scientists in the U.S., Europe and China are linking our feelings of stress, anxiety and severe depression to disturbances among hundreds of microbe species living in our gut that some researchers have started calling the psychobiome.
Warm Oceans Helped First Human Migration From Asia to North America
The Pacific Ocean’s currents support a diverse ecosystem, seen here from space, with green indicating blooms of photosynthesizing plankton. Warmer currents during the last ice age may also have supported early human settlements.NASA
New research reveals significant changes to the circulation of the North Pacific and its impact on the initial migration of humans from Asia to North America.
The international study, led by the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and published Dec. 9 in Science Advances, provides a new picture of the circulation and climate of the North Pacific at the end of the last ice age, with implications for early human migration.
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Hoping to help customers enjoy fine dining at home while restaurants are closed to onsite dining, chef and restaurateur Giuseppe Ciuffa is offering options, including a just-launched meal prep service.
Ciuffa, who owns Giuseppe Restaurants & Fine Catering, a 20-year-old company with several local operations under its umbrella, said, “We have a very good variety of services.”
In addition to his two restaurants and catering, Ciuffa has added Mando, a meal delivery service launched a few weeks ago.
Mando was created because “a lot of people, they like our food, but they don’t live within the [restaurants’] neighborhoods,” Ciuffa said. “Our goal was to create the type of food that we make, restaurant-quality, into a meal prep delivery service.
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