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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Health
Damon Cronshaw

Testing soldiers' guts to boost performance

Stay Alert: Australian soldier Private Thomas Saunders on patrol in the Baluchi Valley, Afghanistan. Picture: Corporal Neil Ruskin

Newcastle researchers will test the gut microbes of Australian soldiers in a bid to improve their performance.

Laureate Professor Nick Talley said the soldier microbes would be "measured in sophisticated ways".

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