A new study comparing bodily bacteria between a remote Amazonian tribe and other groups reveals that our bodies are losing beneficial microbes.
Everyone’s body is brimming with bacteria, and these microbes do plenty of good things like building the immune system and helping digestion. But modern diets, antibiotics and hygiene seem to be reducing the range of microbes occupying our anatomy.
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