IS GUT BACTERIA > -vA SECRET WEAPON?

摘要

You might know that nearly all animals — including us humans — have a unique, discrete and distinctive set of gut microbes that help us digest food, fight diseases and control hormones. These are just a handful of critical functions driven by an entire ecosystem inside our gut. We tend to forget about this bacterial community until it gets invaded, disrupted or distorted — this concept is known as dysbiosis. It's something you might be miserably familiar with if you've been a victim of irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease or a myriad of other intestinal disorders.