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Understanding food as medicine

The one food change with a trial behind it

Stanford put 36 people on ten weeks of fermented food. Microbial diversity went up, and nineteen inflammatory proteins went down. This is what “food as medicine” looks like when it is real.

August 2026 · 5 min read

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