Your Microbiome
📋 What it is
Your body hosts trillions of microbes — your microbiome — that help digest food and keep you healthy.
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Your microbiome is the huge community of microbes living in and on you, especially in your gut. Far from freeloaders, they help digest food, make some vitamins, and crowd out harmful germs. A healthy, varied microbiome is now known to be a big part of overall health.
🧠 Memory hook
Microbiome = your trillions of resident microbes. They help digest food, make vitamins, block bad germs.
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Why isn't every microbe a villain?
Because tons of bacteria are helpful — some even live in your gut and help you digest food!
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The bacteria in your gut help digest foods your own body can’t break down alone — you and your microbiome are a team at every meal.
✅ Quick check: Name one way your gut microbiome helps you.
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
It helps digest food (also makes some vitamins and crowds out harmful germs).
The microbiome aids digestion, nutrition and defence.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Notice that fibre-rich foods (veggies, whole grains) feed your good gut microbes — you’re feeding a garden.