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Our Microbiome-what is it and why is it vital to our health
Ongoing extensive research on the human gut microbiome and it role in our health and disease prevention is a subject few people are aware of. According to The Human Microbiome Project: Extending the definition of what constitutes a human – National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), “The microbiome is defined as the collective genomes of the microbes (composed of bacteria, bacteriophage, fungi, protozoa and viruses) that live inside and on the human body”. Jul 16, 2012 What this means is that there are about 10 times more microbial cells as human cells*. With this knowledge, it makes sense to take care of the “good bacteria” because it’s these microbes…