01/18/2018
...We sometimes think of certain ones as “good” (beneficial bacteria) and others that can be potential pathogens if the circumstances are right as “bad.” Some factors that impact the bacteria in our gut include genes, age, environment, health, antibiotics, and diet. Because of all these variables, your gut microbes can and do shift over time. How is the gut microbiota essential? A long time ago, medicine didn’t think much of bacteria. There was a time...