The fruits and vegetables we consume on a daily basis are flooded with bacteria, minuscule microbes that live in produce and had never really been studied before. Researchers at th[...]

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An expert on fermentation discusses the many health benefits of bacteria.[...]

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Those SCFA, especially butyrate, are recognised for their potential to act on secondary chemoprevention by slowing growth and activating apoptosis in colon cancer cells.[...]

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Probiotics, along with a host of other microorganisms, are so crucial to your health that researchers have compared them to "a newly recognized organ."[...]

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