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Plus: why you shouldn’t give probiotics to your dog.

One day, you might be able to eat microbes — yes, microbes — to help you lose weight.

In this excerpt from his TED Book, microbial researcher Rob Knight shares his — and other scientists’ — work to understand the human microbiome — and the key diseases in which it now seems that microbes may play a part, including inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, and allergies and asthma.