Trust Your Gut

How to nurture the nature in your tummy

A still from the soon-to-be-released documentary “The Invisible Extinction” from directors Sarah Schenck and Steve Lawrence

Too often we make the mistake of seeing ecology as existing outside of us — as if the interlocking systems of the different organisms that constitute life on Earth were a performance orchestrated for our passive entertainment. But as the filmmakers Sarah Schenck and Steve Lawrence probe in their new film The Invisible Extinction a vital ecosystem lives within our bodies…