Microorganisms in the Gut Decide How Well Your Body Fights CancerMicroorganisms in the Gut Decide How Well Your Body Fights Cancer
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Microorganisms in the Gut Decide How Well Your Body Fights Cancer

Studies are revealing miraculous qualities of our gut microbes, including their ability to mediate prolific killers such as cancer and heart disease.
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By Amy Denney
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This is part 6 in “Cultivating Our Gut Microbiome to Stifle Disease”

We might be on the verge of a new medical paradigm if what scientists are discovering about the microbiome ever makes it into the doctor’s office.

In this series, “Cultivating Our Gut Microbiome to Stifle Disease,” we’ll share how the latest developments on this medical frontier are transforming our approaches to illness and offering new strategies to heal and prevent disease.

Mind-blowing studies are revealing miraculous qualities of our gut microbes, including their ability to mediate prolific killers such as cancer and heart disease.

This collection of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that make up about 70 percent of our immune system has become a huge topic for researchers and authors. Hope is the latest theme in many books. It comes as research reveals gut damage from antibiotics, glyphosate, sugar, and stress can be reversed and our gut microbiome can recover. A wave of revelations over the past two decades has fed a new enthusiasm: If you nurture the bugs in your gut, they can do the work of preventing and even fighting diseases for you.