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Peeling Back the Layers of Health: System Thinking, Microbial Diversity, and Environmental Factors

Peeling Back the Layers of Health: System Think...

Martha Carlin | Sep 18, 2026 | podcast

In a recent episode of Everything is Personal, host Lenme sat down with Martha Carlin, founder of The Bio Collective and BiotiQuest®. Reflecting on her decades of citizen science and...

Peeling Back the Layers of Health: System Think...

Martha Carlin | Sep 18, 2026 | podcast

In a recent episode of Everything is Personal, host Lenme sat down with Martha Carlin, founder of The Bio Collective and BiotiQuest®. Reflecting on her decades of citizen science and research, Martha discussed how examining our internal ecosystem across different...

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Reclaiming Your Microbiome: System Thinking, Soil Health, and Parkinson's Research

Reclaiming Your Microbiome: System Thinking, So...

Martha Carlin | Sep 17, 2026 | podcast

Featured Insights from Martha Carlin on Boundless Body Radio In a recent episode of Boundless Body Radio, host Casey Ruff sat down with Martha Carlin, founder of The Bio Collective...

Reclaiming Your Microbiome: System Thinking, So...

Martha Carlin | Sep 17, 2026 | podcast

Featured Insights from Martha Carlin on Boundless Body Radio In a recent episode of Boundless Body Radio, host Casey Ruff sat down with Martha Carlin, founder of The Bio Collective and BiotiQuest®. Driven by her system-thinking background in business auditing...

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The Night Shift: How Your Gut and Brain Connect During Sleep

The Night Shift: How Your Gut and Brain Connect...

Martha Carlin | Sep 02, 2026 |

Behind closed eyes, the brain is carrying out a carefully coordinated night shift. And research into the microbiome raises an intriguing question: how might the activity in our gut influence...

The Night Shift: How Your Gut and Brain Connect...

Martha Carlin | Sep 02, 2026 |

Behind closed eyes, the brain is carrying out a carefully coordinated night shift. And research into the microbiome raises an intriguing question: how might the activity in our gut influence the sleep that gives this work its opportunity?

Martha Carlin on Parkinson’s, the Microbiome, and the Glycocalyx

Martha Carlin on Parkinson’s, the Microbiome, a...

Martha Carlin | Aug 31, 2026 | podcast

In a recent interview, Chris Wark spoke with Martha Carlin—author of Connected: Love Loss and the Unseen Forces Behind Chronic Disease, microbiome researcher, and founder of BiotiQuest—about her 24-year journey investigating...

Martha Carlin on Parkinson’s, the Microbiome, a...

Martha Carlin | Aug 31, 2026 | podcast

In a recent interview, Chris Wark spoke with Martha Carlin—author of Connected: Love Loss and the Unseen Forces Behind Chronic Disease, microbiome researcher, and founder of BiotiQuest—about her 24-year journey investigating the root causes of neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases.

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Can Your Gut Set Your Brain on Fire? The Real Driving Force Behind Brain Inflammation

Can Your Gut Set Your Brain on Fire? The Real D...

Martha Carlin | Jul 15, 2026 | podcast

If you were to ask a room full of neurologists what causes the progressive damage in Parkinson’s disease, most would point straight to the brain. They would talk about dopamine,...

Can Your Gut Set Your Brain on Fire? The Real D...

Martha Carlin | Jul 15, 2026 | podcast

If you were to ask a room full of neurologists what causes the progressive damage in Parkinson’s disease, most would point straight to the brain. They would talk about dopamine, tremors, and the accumulation of toxic proteins like alpha-synuclein.

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The Human Myth: Why We Can't Understand Human Health Without Our Microbial Partners

The Human Myth: Why We Can't Understand Human H...

Martha Carlin | Jul 13, 2026 |

For most of my life, I believed what nearly all of us were taught in biology class. The human body was made up of organs, tissues, cells, and our own...

The Human Myth: Why We Can't Understand Human H...

Martha Carlin | Jul 13, 2026 |

For most of my life, I believed what nearly all of us were taught in biology class. The human body was made up of organs, tissues, cells, and our own DNA. If you wanted to understand health or disease, you...