How to make money using your old blog posts (cryptocurrency)

I just found something interesting, if you know what cryptocurrencies are and you already have a blog with plenty of posts. Quite easy in fact, the only thing is that you need to know is that you can copy/paste your old articles from your blog, if they are original and made by you. they are checking that, but if you own them is no problem.

The website is called Publish0x, a blogging platform, and the easiest way to get crypto is to select BAT (Basic Attention Coin) to be paid and to create and Uphold wallet here, so your coins are deposited at the end of every month. From the Uphold wallet you can send them at the end of every month to a Coinbase account. You can publish up to 5 blog posts every 24 hours.

As a side hustle, using Brave Browser you can also gain free BAT, via little adds. I found this browser alright, working quite fine, and i often use it in conjunction with DuckDuckgo search engine to find some results that are different than Google (unbiased, i mean).

In a month you can make anything between 30 and 300 BAT (BAT value today 28/2/2020 is 0.21USD, so it is like £5-50). I have the maximum ads setting on Brave Browser and i got around 60 ads in the last month. You will not get instantly rich, but you will learn about cryptocurrency alternatives to Bitcoin and there are few interesting trends at the moment. Publish0x is at the moment the second rated blog platform at the profit value after Medium, and they will keep your posts in the game forever (at least this is what they claim), so if you have very interesting articles, they will potentially get you paid for years to come.  The thing is that once you uploaded 100-200 blog posts, the payments go up quite nicely. So it is like 30 days = 150 posts and then you can forget about it. Real passive investment. Just check monthly to transfer the coins from Uphold wallet to Coinbase.

If you don't understand any detail, ask me, I will gladly help.

Disclaimer, some links are referral (so we will both get a small bonus, like £5-6 each for Coinbase, for example).

Microbiota - Synbiotics

Synbiotics are a mixture of probiotics and prebiotics that beneficially affect the host. By combining these tow in a food product, this will lead to a better chance of survival and activity of microbes in the gut.

The interaction for two or more things in order to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their separate effects it is called synergy. Synbiotics are a mixture of probiotics and prebiotics that beneficially affect the host, with a better survival chance of the probiotics during the passage through the large intestine, avoiding to be made inactive by the high acidic environment present in our stomach, to increase the overall gut health. Once in the intestine, they can start fermenting right away, increasing the activity and growth or the microbiota. The prebiotic can also affect the stool consistency and the bowel movement. Probiotic strains of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria are combined with mixtures of fibers (FOS, GOS, inulin) to create a synbiotic. Synbiotics were tested to help different gut diseases like inflammatory bowel , irritable bowel syndrome, cancer, liver diseases and allergies.

My next post will be about personalized nutrition. See  you soon!

G.

Microbiota - Probiotics

Probiotics were originally introduced as the opposite of antibiotics, living microorganisms consumed to restore the microbiota that we lost after antibiotic treatments. A probiotic is a live microorganism which provide a health benefit to the host and promote gut health when administered in adequate amounts. A probiotic can strengthen the immune system, prevent infection with pathogens, compensate an unhealthy change in our microbiota or an infection by shortening the time of recovery for our microbiome, and even provide extra energy via more short chain fatty acids.

They provide hope in treating lactose intolerance, infections and post-antibiotic diarrhea, immunomodulation for allergies and chronic bowel inflammatory diseases. The biggest challenge is to make them to reach intestine alive, surviving the storage and the acidic medium of our stomach, and delivering the desired concentration in the end (which is strain dependent). We are aiming for 10 at the 7th colony forming units pre milliliter of product. Lactobacillus and bifidobacteria are the most used antibiotics.

Tomorrow i will talk a bit about synbiotics. Have a nice day!

G.

Microbiota - Prebiotics

What are the prebiotics, you would ask? They are fibres stimulating the microbial growth in the gut, when eaten, improving the gut health. These fibres can escape digestion in the small intestine, but once they reach the colon , they will be partially or completely fermented by the gut microbiota. The composition and the activity of the gut microbiota changes, because the microbes able to degrade those kind of fibres are favoured in their growth, and this is beneficial for the host (us).

Prebiotics fibres are made of oligosaccharides, chains of sugar molecules. The most known prebiotics are galactooligosaccharide (GOS), made of chains of galactose sugars and fructo-oligosaccharide (FOS) or inulin, made of fructose sugars. FOS and inulin can be found naturally in plants (onion, garlic, wheat, banana, chicory and various cereals). GOS are made by workers in dairy factories, converting lactose using beta-galactosidase enzymes. As they are digested by our microbiota, short chain fatty acids will be produced, and they will be used as an energy source, to reduce pain or influence the metabolism. 

Prebiotics like GOS, FOS and inulin are very good to stimulate the growth of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus microbe species/ Both of them are commonly found in breast fed babies, and sometimes are added to the formula and infant milk to mimic the effect of breastmilk and increase Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus in infant's microbiota. They are also added to breakfast cereals, bars of cereals, cheese and custard. Apart from the microbiota fermentation product altering the host response, prebiotics can stimulate bowel movements and help with constipation, as they increase the stool weight, due to the prebiotic and the water attracted by the prebiotic.

Lactobacillus reuteri

Conclusion: Prebiotics are fibres that arrive in the colon intact. Here they are degraded, leading to the growth stimulation of the beneficial microbes in the gut. The microbial activity combined with the higher water content of the faeces will result in improved gastric health. 

Next post will be about probiotics. 

See you soon,

G.

Microbial therapies and diagnostics

We all should know that regarding us and our microbes, we work together to harvest the maximum of energy from our food and to fight against pathogens. But which is the best way to keep our microbiota healthy? Everybody heard, i hope, about prebiotics and probiotics. But anyway, i will try to explain a bit more. There are some fibers called prebiotics, that are beneficial to our microbiota. Also, there are some live cultures of microbes that can stimulate our gut health, once added to our diet. The composition of our microbiota can provide personal information about you, and can be used to develop personal food strategies. Our microbiota holds information that can help us to diagnose certain diseases too. So, while our microbes can tell about our health, they can be also used to improve our health and cure certain diseases. One example is the use of faecal transplant therapy to treat recurrent Clostridium difficile, with a bigger success rate than antibiotics and a lowest rate of recurrence.

I will do next a more indepth blog post about probiotics and prebiotics. See you soon!
G.

The Peter Principle

People in a hierarchy such as a business or government will be promoted until they suck at their jobs, at which point they will remain where they are. As a result, the world is filled mostly with people who suck at their jobs.

(Gurwinder S Bogal)

I found this funny, but it is somehow true. Read some more on the link.

Back to the future?

I was not very active lately and i will try to do it more often if possible.

Cheers
G.