Eating seaweed can genetically modify the bacteria in our guts

By Michael Le Internet page

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Drinking seaweed can genetically alter the micro organism on your gut, as they’ll possess genes from marine micro organism for digesting substances unique to seaweeds. It’s no longer identified if this impacts folks’s neatly being, but having gut micro organism that can digest carrageenan, a same old food additive derived from seaweed, may perchance well moreover very neatly be execrable.

“Our microbes are naturally genetically engineering themselves,” says Eric Martens at the University of Michigan.

Seaweeds possess unique dietary fibres – colossal carbohydrate molecules – that neither we nor the micro organism in our guts can customarily digest. For instance, the nori wrappers old for sushi …