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daisyluu09 t1_j5guz8g wrote

Reply to comment by Bacchus1976 in How our microbiome is shaped by family, friends, and even neighbors. Study of the gut and mouth microbiomes of thousands of people from around the world raises the possibility that diseases linked to microbiome dysfunction, including cancer, diabetes, and obesity, could be partly transmissible. by MistWeaver80

Thanks for this explanation! I don’t have children (yet) and was kind of confused. Makes a lot of sense!

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Bacchus1976 t1_j5gv8su wrote

As others have noted it’s a more complex system than just “poop” but this explains the joke.

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