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Fecal microbe transplants help cancer patients respond to immunotherapy and shrink tumors – The Conversation US

Whether or not you respond to a certain medicine or therapy doesn’t just depend on you. The microbes in your gut play a role in the success or failure of various…

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The effect of a drug, or impact of a treatment like chemotherapy, doesnt just depend on your body. The success of a particular medicine also depends on the trillions of bacteria in your gut.
The 100 trillion bacteria that live within the human digestive tract known as the human gut microbiome help us extract nutrients from food, boost the immune response and modulate the effects of drugs. Recent research, including my own, has implicated the gut microbiome in seemingly unconnected states, ranging…

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