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263: Before the Acorns

Dear Hank & John

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Why You Can't Eat Grass Without Microbes?

We can't eat grass because we don't have those same gut bacteria. Cows could not live without microbes. cellulose is a structural thing that is much harder to break down than starch. There's also the question of, like, what is it about cellulose which is just a glucose polamer? It's surprisingly complicated.

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