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Meet Dr Gemma Walton
In this video, Dr Gemma Walton to explain how our gut microbiota impacts our health - both positively and negatively.
In this video, I return to the Food Sciences lab to ask Dr Gemma Walton to explain how our gut microbiota impacts our health – both positively and negatively – and what we can do to boost the good microbes to improve our health.
Figure 1: Certain species of bacteria that live in the gut are beneficial to human health, whilst others are associated with ill health and some cause disease
If you would like to learn more about the types of foods which are beneficial to the gut microbiota, there is an additional audio clip from my interview with Dr Gemma Walton, or you can read the transcript.
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