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Journal Review in Colorectal Surgery: Timing of Biologics and Surgery in the Setting of Crohn’s Disease

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

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How Much Is Bacteria in Your Gut?

Our gut is really the outside world travelling through us, you know, ot bottom. And as a lot of bacteria. A test of what percentage of the weight of your poop is bacteria. I mean, it's amazing we don't get sick, and that's because we have a rich immune system in our gut. The y can recognize self itself, and it knows surface markers. So when a bacteria tries to invade into the body, the body recognizes that as a foreigner because of the surface marker, and kills it. When you develop i b d, i just say your immune system normally is at a ino, a thousand r p ms, and now you're red lining.

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