This new research explains how balancing the gut bacteria is a tricky matter. Which explains why digestive enzymes and marshmallow root tea (to counter inflammation) are a must.
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” These microbes are typically found in low numbers because they need oxygen to grow, and the gut is an oxygen-free world. But during inflammation, oxygen leaks through, and its presence allows enteros to devour a chemical called formate, produced by other gut microbes. “They can eat the scraps off the table,” Winter says. Inflammation also causes host cells to release nitrates, and the enteros can “br ...
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