Without the trillions of microbes that inhabit our gut, we can't fully benefit from the components of our diet. But cultural differences in diet may, in part, dictate what food our gut microbiota can digest.
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Sonnenburg, J. Genetic pot luck. Nature 464, 837–838 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/464837a
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