Life Between the Tides
September 6, 2023
“We still go to the seaside for consolation and simplicity…but there are ironies in choosing the shore as a theatre for reassurance. A tidal coast is filled with that paradoxical quality: reliable unreliability, both closed and open-ended, both familiar and strange. Regularity toys with uncertainty there…the intertidal is rich but troubled; as no coincidence, it is one of the most revelatory habitats on Earth…of all the great discoveries made in the science of nature, from a grasp of taxonomy, to the sequence of creatures through time revealed in the rocks, the adaptations of organisms to circumstance, the idea of natural selection…all these ways of understanding the pattern of life first emerged from studying what was happening to animals and plants between the tides.”
–Adam Nicolson, Life Between the Tides
Intertidal life inspired Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff’s earliest theories in immunology, setting the stage for our modern understanding of inflammation and disease. More than a century onwards, we know that the sea is also immensely therapeutic, helping us to cultivate a lifestyle that manages inflammation…
A Silent Fire
January 12, 2023
Excited to share that A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet and Disease is now available in the UK!
“Compelling, thoughtful and rigorously researched…Ravella fuses scientific history with something more in the line of a self-help guide…if your new year’s resolution involves a promise to take care of yourself, this book might just help it stick too”
“Controlling inflammation is the key to good health and this beautifully written and researched book is the best way to understand it”
—Tim Spector, author of Food for Life
“As gripping as a mystery story and as useful as a self-help book”
—Bee Wilson, author of The Way We Eat Now
“A beautiful and authoritative deep dive into one of the most important scientific frontiers of our time. Big new ideas in health and medicine are explained brilliantly. Every page is fascinating”