What Your Microbiome Really Needs Is Fiber, Not Kombucha

Some microbes reside permanently in our guts. Others are just passing through.

Katherine Harmon Courage
Elemental

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InIn recent years, we’ve begun to learn that most everything we eat — from probiotic yogurt to a serving of asparagus to a fatty pork chop — has an effect on the microbes that live in our bodies, which, in turn, have an effect on us. And…

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