People raised on antibiotics have microbiomes with 90% less diversity than people in hunter-gatherer societies.

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Antibiotics are bacterial extinction events. Modern diets and medications have stripped our microbiomes of ancestral bacteria we've coevolved with for millennia. Scientists believe this lost microbial diversity explains explosions in allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases—we're missing the bacteria our immune system evolved to work with.

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