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Journey of food

A video describing what happens to food when it enters our gastrointestinal tract: how it is treated and how it affects our microbiota/microbiome.

This video gives an overview of what you will learn this week, we will understand the essential role our gut microbiota has in the digestion of our food and how the gut microbiome is dependent on the types of food we eat and their complex structures

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The Human Microbiome

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