Re: Here is one for everyone...

thank you... and I remember that :-)

B. longum metabolizes or degrades nitrates by an intracellular enzymatic activity....

Streptoccous thermophilus appears to reduce nitrites (cancer causing chemical) in the body.

I am sure there are many others (science has admitted being unable to "culture over 300 gut bacteria species - and thus cannot study them as they would have hoped)... and I suspect that the article/study... referencing enzymes, may be the same enzymes produced by the microflora in at least some cases, if not all of them.

The bottom line here is that the microflora can, and does take inorganic material and cycle it into organic matter... just as it does in the soil... to a point.

As with anything else, the microflora can become overwhelmed... and that seems to be the case these days...

grz-

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