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Eating for Your Microbiome
There are certain compounds in plants that your gut bacteria love. You're not only eating for yourself, you're eating for the trillions of microbes that almost outnumber yourselves in your gut. Pomegranate has a compound in it that gets converted by good gut bacteria to something called uralithin A. It increases fitness level through VO2 max, increases muscle strength, and increases mitochondrial cleanup or a mitochondrial autophagy without exercise. And also increases mitochondrial renewal and biogenesis to make new mitochondria.