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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Lifestyle
Miriam Stoppard

'Having a happy gut with the right mix of bacteria could improve cancer treatments'

Having a happy gut, containing the right mix of bacteria, is being linked to more and more surprising health benefits, ranging from your heart to your ­ mental health.

And here’s another one: it could improve cancer treatments.

That is the conclusion of researchers from five clinical centres in the UK and across Europe studying our gut ­microbiome – the ­population of bacteria in our digestive system.

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