If you think you have your food all to yourself, you are mistaken. You're actually sharing the food with a large community of microbes waiting within your digestive tract. According to a new study from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine some gut microbes increase the absorption of dietary fats, allowing the host organism to extract more calories from the same amount of food. "This study is the first to demonstrate that microbes can promote the absorption ...Thursday, 13 September 2012
Gut Microbes Enable the Body to Extract More Calories from Food
If you think you have your food all to yourself, you are mistaken. You're actually sharing the food with a large community of microbes waiting within your digestive tract. According to a new study from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine some gut microbes increase the absorption of dietary fats, allowing the host organism to extract more calories from the same amount of food. "This study is the first to demonstrate that microbes can promote the absorption ...
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