Study Points to a New Culprit in Heart Disease

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9 pointsVervious2 comments

Our understanding of gut bacteria is poised to revolutionize our practice of medicine. This is fascinating research with quite unexpected results.

Not only gut bacteria. Knowledge of oral bacteria likely will also have quite an impact on e.g. caries.

Having said that, I bet the story will not turn out to be one where we can simply say "the butler always does it. Get rid of your butler, and you'll never die of heart disease". This story got somewhat sensationalized for publication.

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