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		dasil003 on Sept 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Artificial sweeteners linked to glucose intoleranc... I don't think that would work (bacteria living the colon can not necessarily survive all the way through the digestive tract). What is an accepted form of gut biome therapy is a stool transplant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy

tormeh on Sept 17, 2014 [–]

Could it work if put in capsules dissolving in the right stage? Anyway, thanks for the link.

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