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Food label nutrition facts matter to you, but don't tell you much about your gut microbes

  • Written by Abigail Johnson, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Minnesota
What nutrients will help the microbes in your gut thrive? Rocketclips, Inc./Shutterstock.com

It seems like every day a new study is published that links the bacteria in the gut to a specific disease or health condition. The allure of research like ours and that of other groups is that it might eventually be possible to give personalized...

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