How Your Diet & Gut Bacteria Work Together to Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

We all know you are what you eat—or so the expression goes—but it's good to remember that what you are (at least intestinally) is mainly bacteria. A new study has shown that what you eat, and how your gut microbiome reacts to that food, might be a key player in your risk of developing a certain type of colon cancer—and changing your diet can help decrease your risk. Only a handful of microbes have been linked to cancer, and most of those microbes were viruses. However, the bacteria Fusobacterium nucleatum was found in abundance in colorectal cancer tumors during a a 2012 study, and a 2016... more



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