Ted Dinan

John F. Cryan

Scott C. Anderson

"This cutting-edge book reveals how a healthy gut can drive psychological well-being, improve your mood, and combat common diseases including depression, anxiety, obesity, heart disease--even autism and Alzheimer's--all by nurturing your microbiome. Welcome to psychobiotics, the revolutionary new scientific field that treats the common ailments of our time. Leading medical researchers John F. Cryan and Ted Dinan, together with veteran journalist Scott C. Anderson, explain the operations of the all-critical gut-brain axis, revealing how overall well-being depends on a healthy population of intestinal bacteria. For the first time, Cryan and Dinan--who coined the term "psychobiotics"--introduce the microbes essential to brain health and explain how changes in lifestyle and diet can keep them thriving. With useful charts naming bacteria species and laboratory-tested psychobiotic products, along with disease-by-disease accounts of the role a healthy gut plays in prevention and treatment, this comprehensive guide illuminates the essential steps you need to improve your life--all by maintaining a healthy gut"--

The New Science of Psychobiotics and How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Mood

The Psychobiotic Revolution

Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection

Psychobitic Revolution

Written for all ages. This is a story of time, friendship, and responsibility. An advanced mining crew will make the toughest decision as they alter time in order to save the lives of friends and lovers. This is not an easy decision and one that will have to be performed while mounting the rescue of protected allies and fighting off more than one persistent deadly race. Confronted with a new duality, a beautiful starship commander will make a quick judgment call without consulting her husband, and a young man will find that true love and sacrifice means letting go. Both people, along with their crew of advanced miners, will find that life is new and complete, but separate as "doubles."

The Doubles - An Accident in Time

Shelley and Colin were young and in love. Running away to find meaning in their lives, they never expected to crash land on a blue-water planet known as earth. This is a story about damaged people and recovery. This is a story about earth and outer space. A young couple will seek a new life and adventure, only to be stranded on the earth planet during a time of war. A young man, beaten and humiliated by his family, will rise to repair the offworld spacecraft and allow the young couple to return home. During their travels, a young officer will be betrayed by his captain, simply for the sake of convenience. In some cases, absolute power does corrupt absolutely. And a machine race will find new life and purpose after the harsh manipulations of a human. The characters may sound familiar, but new possibilities offer a new direction. Colin and Shelley's two-week voyage will create a lifetime of memories. Written for all ages.

The Runaways

The Men of Palla are in reality six engineers from earth. These six men find that they have been captured and sold as labor assets to a grey alien race known as the Ponas. Their year-long servitude on this rogue planet ends with a rescue by the beautiful inter trader Myra Song. Myra finds these men, along with two other races, simply by chance. She weaves a deal to return the six men, but not without facing a few entanglements. Each man will face a difficult return to society. With the help of another earth human, who works offworld for his own mining interests, the men of Palla will face their biggest challenge. This is a story of adventure, friendship, and hardship. Each man will find that freedom is never free.

The Colar Boys - The Men of Palla

The Colar Boys - The Four Prophets

This story continues from The Chance Encounter. Mining offworld is hard work. Steven Piehl will then work with his offworld employer to provide a solution to the volcanic eruption facing Yellowstone National Park. Working with scientists from around the country, an offworld concern will assist the earth-human miner using a controlled release of the volcano discharge from beneath the earth's crust. Continuing with the Yellowstone solution, a race known as the Chanal will become involved with the glowing magma moon from earth. Steven will need to intervene, allowing the Chanal to free their people with the help of Dan Cochran and his fiancé, Shalamar Sodel. With the help of a Secret Service Agent connected with the Yellowstone project, Steven and his crew will again find that freedom is seldom free. Written for all ages.

The Chance Encounter - Yellowstone and The Chanal

Volume Two includes The Colar Boys adventures of The Four Prophets, Five Alive, and The Men from Palla. Continued from Volume One, Larrytam and Aron aid and rescue enslaved Colar and earth humans from the mining planet known as Habronsan. Myra Song, the Florek inter trader, once again enters the picture and works with the two free Colar, as Larrytam and Aron work to free their people. Aron's kidnapping in Five Alive results in a dangerous mission run by operatives working with the Colar government. Myra Song is a strong woman working with the support of honorable men. Life isn't easy, it never is, but Myra has the ability to overcome obstacles. This is story of struggle and hope. The Colar Boys, and the people they encounter, only try to better their situation when confronted with a challenge. These men and women may seem familiar, though the settings are new.

The Colar Boys Volume Two

Written for all age groups. Steven Piehl lived and worked on the earth planet known as Palla. Recruited by an offworld employer to mine for the Taman civilization, Steven would use his abilities to save, direct, and save the world he loved so much. Steven had a good job, good friends, and a positive attitude. Steven's life would change direction during a chance meeting with a future offworld employer. With an army of helpful bots, Steven has the ability to mine raw materials for several offworld concerns. His actions lead the young miner to confront his own government, solidify a friendship with an Air Force Captain, and become the single planetary representative for the earth humans. Steven will confront alien races unable to ask or negotiate for their wants without the need for domination or conquest. Steven will grow, and pull his friends into a future with much larger possibilities than he ever could have imagined.

The Chance Encounter

The Long Weekend

Written for all ages. This is the first in a series of adventures with Larrytam and Aron. Two Colar ship workers left behind and abandoned on a planet known as Earth. An earth woman, through a chance meeting with an alien race known as the Taman, will save the boys from extermination. In return, the Colar boys will save this woman from a life of isolation and prepare an adventure befitting the strong widow. Finding work on a Florek merchant freighter, Larrytam and Aron will find safety and solace with a lone freighter captain. Brave and free, Captain Rollio Surlatan will take the Colar boys to places they’ve never imagined, and confront the ideals that freedom is never free. One Way Out details their struggle and provides the foundation of a lasting relationship between Colar, Florek, and Taman. Larrytam, older and experienced, is joined by Aron, young at 24 years and ready for life. They will interact, save, teach, and learn as they simply try to stay alive under Captain Surlatan’s direction.

The Colar Boys - One Way Out

This story continues from The Chance Encounter. Mining offworld is hard work. Steven Piehl will then work with his offworld employer to provide a solution to the volcanic eruption facing Yellowstone National Park. Working with scientists from around the country, an offworld concern will assist the earth-human miner using a controlled release of the volcano discharge from beneath the earth’s crust. Continuing with the Yellowstone solution, a race known as the Chanal will become involved with the glowing magma moon from earth. Steven will need to intervene, allowing the Chanal to free their people with the help of Dan Cochran and his fiancé, Shalamar Sodel. With the help of a Secret Service Agent connected with the Yellowstone project, Steven and his crew will again find that freedom is seldom free. Written for all age groups.

The Chance Encounter - Yellowstone and the Chanal

Echoes of a New Day

This is a story of loneliness and fulfillment. A young man will leave the paradise of his blue-water world and start a journey to find and save his people. An occupation could be called slavery, depending on your viewpoint. Dhan Sokin will fight for his people, so they in turn can fight for their own freedom. A young woman will discover that the leaders of her people place a finite price on personal value. During a negotiation, a battleship captain will underestimate the value of Jasmine Jones, freeing her from the bonds of one man’s appraisal. Jasmine will thrive, but not without hard work and persistence, and the help of a few friends. Fear is more comfortable when treated as a friend. Jasmine will acquire the tools that will change her fate, as starting at the bottom can only lead to the top. Dhan will find that he always had what he needed. A fresh pair of eyes from a machine race will show him the way.

The Long Walk Home

A Time to Heal

This is a story of success, power, and murder. While writing the screenplay to follow a successful science fiction movie, Tom Sala found himself in an enviable position. Following the success of a runaway hit, the personal needs of those around Mr. Sala will intrude on his need for peace and quiet to write the sequel. The crazy, the calculating, and those gambling on opportunity will knock on his office door. Tom Sala will need to evaluate his goals and depend on his personal code to survive. Written for all ages.

The Heartbreak of Seagal

Nevermore

Written for all age groups. Three Days of Discovery continues from Two is Company. Larrytam and Aron meet a new ally in Myra Song. The trader and negotiator in all things of value in the galaxy will serve as a powerful ally. Larrytam fights his personal demons and Aron continues to grow as an independent man, all under the sponsorship of Captain Rollio Surlatan. Myra knows how to bring new toys to a conflict and uses her traded technology to free and advance her new Colar friends. Treachery and deceit are always brought to the table when dealing with the Colar, but new and even more powerful allies await the two men as they work through the obstacles of living free.

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