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Your Gut Microbes May Decide How Many Calories You Really Absorb

Researchers have created a model that follows food beyond traditional calorie calculations, incorporating the role of gut microbes in digestion.

Your Gut Microbes May Decide How Many Calories You Really Absorb

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Researchers have created a model that follows food beyond traditional calorie calculations, incorporating the role of gut microbes in digestion.

In reality, the digestive process is much more complex.

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Researchers have created a model that follows food beyond traditional calorie calculations, incorporating the role of gut microbes in digestion. Food labels make calorie counts look straightforward. In reality, the digestive process is much more complex.

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Food labels make calorie counts look straightforward. In reality, the digestive process is much more complex.

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