You’re home to trillions of microorganisms. If you were to collectively place all these microbes on a scale, they’d weigh up to 3 pounds—as much as the average human brain! Most of these microbes reside in your gut and can affect digestion, metabolism, immune system, and weight management.
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The food you eat greatly affects the type of microbes that live inside your gut. This is because you are not only feeding yourself every time you sit down for a meal but also your resident microbes. Your body digests and absorbs nutrients from the foods you eat, but there are components in foods that your body cannot digest. When the leftover components from your meal move through your digestive system and arrive at your large intestine, those substances become fuel for the microbes that live there.
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We depend on our natural production of digestive enzymes and those produced by the microbes in our intestines to help with the breakdown of foods. These enzymes target a variety of carbohydrates, some fibers, as well as various fats and proteins.
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