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How do your good microbes help keep you healthy?

Your helpful microbes don't only digest food; they also help defend you from the harmful kind. But microbes have no teeth or weapons. So how do the good ones protect you?

A scientist examining colonies of bacteria growing on an agar dish.
Photo: David McClenaghan, CSIRO · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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