The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And what we find super interesting about these metabolites or these small molecules is, A, that they have, in many cases, a peculiar chemistry, you know, that we've not recognized before. And B, that these molecules, in contrast to the microbes that make them, can influx, can swim into our sterile body where they can reach a very distant cells and organs and impact them.
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And there are increasing evidence suggesting that one may regard our microbiome among many other descriptions as a biochemical factory that generates or modulates many thousands of of small molecules that could be potentially bioactive and are called metabolites.