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Bill Gates says a diet ‘breakthrough’ based on the microbes crawling in your gut could help the world’s waistlines

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  • The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is investing millions of dollars in new strategies to create consumable gut-microbe therapies that could change the way our stomachs process food.
  • The hope is that new probiotics (which would be far more complex and microbe-rich than yogurt or fermented food) will help both undernourished and obese children live healthier lives.
  • Gates has been investing in this kind of microbial bio-therapy for about 10 years, and predicts “we will get a breakthrough” in nutrition in the coming decade.

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Source:: BusinessInsider.Com