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Episode 133 - Symbiosis

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The Gut Microbiome Is Incredibly Important in Many Regards

A lot of the things that will make you sick are there most of the time. But if your health wanes, or if certain conditions aremet, that bacteria can spread enough to cause problems for you. And that often is the case with a lot of pathegans. If you lost your gut microbes, you would being able to eat most things that you're used to eating because they help us digest a ton of stuff. For instance, animals typically can't break down cellulose of plants. The thing that makes up the biggest building block of the cell wall of plants. Without that, you'd eat a carrot and chew it up and mush it up in that mush would just travel

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