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Gut microbes may predict whether exercising will prevent diabetes

27 November 2019

Exercising helps some people avoid developing diabetes but not others, and we may now know why: it could be down to features of the human gut microbiome
Allergies are more common in young children

Gut microbes may determine whether infants develop food allergies

22 May 2019

Young immune systems may be particularly sensitive to food allergens in the absence of right gut bacteria, a study in mice suggests

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