{"id":3366,"date":"2013-09-24T15:40:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T19:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2022-03-24T11:35:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:35:50","slug":"healthy-body-may-mean-healthy-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/healthy-body-may-mean-healthy-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Body May Mean Healthy Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Dunn \u201997 is extensively quoted (and his best-selling book cited, <em>The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today<\/em>) in an article by Nancy Churnin that appeared in the Dallas Morning News\u2019 &#8220;Dallas News Life.&#8221; The article, &#8220;Be nice to your bacteria and they\u2019ll be nice to you, doctors say,&#8221; notes a growing belief among experts that good health is strongly influenced by the ecology of the multitudes of bacteria that reside in our bodies and in our natural environment. 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