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007skaty The Gut Microbiome
My gut is making all my feel-good chemistry (oh-oh!) / A trillion microbes keeping up the energy (yeah yeah!)
007skaty Microbes in the digestive tract manipulate our appetite through chemical signals, steering us to eat the foods that
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007skaty Grow helpful microbes in the gut garden to learn how bacteria sustain the human body.
Microbial cell count: Your body contains roughly 30 trillion human cells, but it plays host to nearly 38 trillion bacterial cells living inside you.
The community of microorganisms that live in a particular environment, especially in or on the human body. The human digestive tract hosts about 100 trillion microbial cells that synthesize vitamins and regulate metabolic health.
What is the approximate ratio of bacterial cells to human cells in a typical adult body?
Which bacterial genus is a major producer of B-vitamins in the human digestive tract?
What is the cure rate of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) for recurrent C. difficile infections?
Which major physical pathway connects the gut's nervous system directly to the brain?
Which essential blood-clotting vitamin is heavily produced by bacteria in the human gut?