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How does Fasting affect the Microbiome‪?‬

The Colonization of the intestine with bacteria plays an important role in keeping people healthy.

In this Episode Leonard Wilhelmi, the managing director of Buchinger Wilhelmi Lake Constance talks with Dr Francoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, the scientific director of the Fasting clinics about the influence of fasting on the composition of the microbiome.

The Buchinger Wilhelmi clinics published a Study on Fasting and the effects on the human gut microbiome in the Journal of Nutritional Science last year, which represents the scientific foundation of the discussion.

𝗧𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆: Changes in human gut microbiota composition are linked to the energy metabolic switch during 10 d of Buchinger fasting