Blog — Gut Health
What is My Microbiome?
Posted by Charlotte Tzabari on
The Gut, Gut Biome and Microbiome... are these all the same thing? And what's the difference? Your gut is your body's digestive track, the small and large intestine. Your gut's biome, or microbiome is something more. Simply put, the microbiome is the vast colony (an ecosystem really) of bacterial cells that live in the body. Each and every living animal and human on the planet has a microbiota colony (or microbiome) living within them. This colony grows, develops and colonizes over time and begins when a baby is born and first exposed to her or his mother’s vaginal bacteria. Our...
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