About

I spent over a decade teaching biochemistry and cell biology at university level before I realised that the most interesting science was happening in spaces most people couldn't access, paywalled journals, specialist conferences, lab corridors. That bothered me. The gut microbiome revolution was in full swing, metabolomics was reshaping how we understood disease and nutrition, and the public was still reading decade-old articles about probiotics and "good bacteria." I left full-time academia to do something about it. This site is the result: a place where applied biology, biochemistry, and microbiome science are explained with the rigour they deserve, but without the jargon wall that keeps most people out. I write for the biology student who wants to go deeper, and for the curious adult who just wants to actually understand what their gut bacteria are doing.

Dr. Claire Maddox