The capacity for degrading complex carbohydrates that the microbiome encodes, it's just massive. It would be a pretty big endeavor on our human genomes part to try to encode all of this. Your microbiome is actually adaptable to your environment and can more closely match the carbohydrate environment of your food. Now that presents a vulnerability to this malleability in that microbiota can deteriorate and change potentially in ways that are not beneficial to our health.

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