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If you go to the gym often enough, you might be familiar with protein powders and shakes, but one study thinks that the secret to big gains might actually be your gut bacteria.

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Sources:
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/929371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1113/JP281788

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008100#sec009
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/929139

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