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“Everything about the human body in terms of how we function, how we age, what chronic diseases we get, what chronic diseases we don’t get, all relate back to the composition and activity of the microbiome. There’s no other single thing in our universe that has that profound [an] effect on everything about our lives,” says Dr Stephen Barrie. The vice president of Viome, the gut intelligence home testing company, he has been researching the human microbiome for the past 30 years.

Understanding the microbiome – the entire collection of microbes living inside and on the body – is the

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