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A gut bacterium as a fountain of youth? Well, let’s start with reversing insulin resistance

Move over Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus. There’s a new health-promoting gut bacterium in town, and it’s called Akkermansia muciniphila. Credit: CC0 Public Domain You will not find its benefits at the bottom of a yogurt cup. But a new study has identified more than one way to nurture its growth in the gut, and offered evidence...