Chocolate Is Good For You Thanks to Gut Bacteria

Chocolate Is Good For You Thanks to Gut Bacteria

On the heels of great news that dark chocolate really is good for you , researchers have found out some new crap. A study about why chocolate is good for you points to the bacteria that lurk inside your colon.

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Need a Fecal Transplant? There's a Poop Bank For That

Need a Fecal Transplant? There's a Poop Bank For That

By now, you’ve probably heard of the miracle that is the fecal transplant. When antibiotics become useless against infections by the nasty bacterium Clostrium difficile, a slurry of human feces—full of "good" bacteria—piped into the gut can fix things up quick and cheap. The problem has always been a reliable source of poop.

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