My Diet Evolution contains strong recommendations about the importance of a daily dose of friendly bacteria, usually referred to as PROBIOTICS. But in the interest of space in the book, the reasons behind their importance to your health was truncated. Well, now it’s time to get to know your “Old Friends”.
Your intestines contain about 4.4 pounds of microbes, at least 500 of which have been categorized. While our body has about 100 trillion cells, our gut organisms consist of 1,000 trillion cells. In fact, the gut flora has 100 times as many genes as our human genome! Wow! That’s a lot of computing power rumbling around your gut! And it’s the amount of that genetic information that has made researchers wonder if there is more to “poop” than meets the eye, so to speak.
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