Tongue-to-Bum Part 7: The Large Intestine – Microbiome and the Last Watering Hole

Once you go through the next gateway (The ileocecal sphincter) on your adventurous journey, you find yourself in the midst of a majestic and magnificent forest. You can tell that you are still in some sort of tunnel, but it is completely different from the one that you just left. It is so much bigger!
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Tongue-to-Bum Part 6: Intestinal Immune System – Your Personal Secret Service

  In previous blogs we saw our adventurous journey taking us from perceiving food and drink in our minds eye, mindful eating (part 1, part 2), chewing our food in the mouth (part 3), swallowing it to enter the stomach ( part 4 ). In the last blog we saw the chyme entering the small intestine  is
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