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• Over two-thirds of your body’s lymphocytes (the captains of immune function) are found in the lining of the small intestine. From this base they travel throughout your body, sending signals that influence immunity in all other organs.
• Each time you take antibiotics, your gut flora is altered. Then, if you don’t eat the right foods, including cultured or fermented foods, you inevitably suffer from a dysbiosis—an imbalance between favorable and unfavorable microorganisms in the gut.
• When you remove the foods that are “toxic” to your body because they
• Gut Bacteria May Make You Fat
• When the researchers looked at the microbial populations from each of the human twins, they found the obese twins had a less diverse community of bacteria. Microbial diversity seems to be