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This isn’t a well understood area at all but the idea that yeast / fermented food consumption helps us regulate our immune system in a good way has also been studied.


Yep, it's kind of a double-edged sword. On one hand an over-active immune response can be great for fighting cancers and opportunistic infections possibly. But too much inflammation will wear down our bodies and trigger auto-immune responses.




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