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You are what you eat – or should our gut microbiome be considered an important body system in its own right?

Guest posting: Assoc. Prof. Josh Davis,  Principal Research Fellow/NHMRC Career Development Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research, Senior Staff Specialist Infectious Diseases Physician, John Hunter Hospital, Conjoint Professor School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle The diverse bacterial communities which live in our gastrointestinal tract (primary in the colon), are collectively known as the “gut microbiota” and their collective […]

Can you develop antibiotic resistance without antibiotics?

Studies of an indigenous tribe from the Amazon who had no previous contact with Europeans have shown you can!