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Having good friendships may make for a healthier gut microbiome

Frontiers

Lead author Dr Katerina Johnson , a research associate at the Department of Experimental Psychology and the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Oxford, said: “Here we show that more sociable monkeys have a higher abundance of beneficial gut bacteria, and a lower abundance of potentially disease-causing bacteria.”. Social grooming.

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