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What they found was that the kids in Burkina Faso,
他们发现布基纳法索孩子
the bacteria that was living in their intestine was completely different from the bacteria that lives in the intestines of the kids in Florence
肠子里的细菌非常不同于佛罗伦萨孩子肠子里的细菌
And what they found was the green, ok, these are the Bacteroidetes species
这是他们的发现，绿色这些是拟杆菌门细菌
and these are bacteria that have evolved both in the soil and now in our intestine to thrive off of vegetables
这些细菌在土壤和肠道中都有靠蔬菜为生
And they also happen to be bacteria that tend to put very healthy things like antioxidants into our systems
而且这些细菌能够为人体提供抗氧化剂等健康物质
They like vegetables,
它们喜欢蔬菜，
they like collecting healthy things from vegetables and giving them to us, So we can kind of think of them as health promoting bacteria
并从蔬菜中提取健康物质，提供给人体，这些可以考虑为促进健康的细菌
The red bacteria are called Firmicutes
而红色细菌则属于厚壁菌门
and I don't know if any of you have ever heard of things like Salmonella or Shigella or E. coli or Klebsiella
不知道你们听过沙门氏菌，志贺氏菌，大肠杆菌，克雷伯氏菌没有
These are the things that hit the news of superstars, whenever we have one of those big food contamination
每当出现大的食品污染，这些细菌总能登上头版头条
Those are part of the Firmicutes family, ok
这些都是厚壁菌一类的
Well, it turns out that the kids in Europe had a lot of those in the intestines
欧洲这些孩子肠道内有大量厚壁菌门细菌
They didn't have the ones that caused the super bad infections like Salmonella, Klebsiella, or they will be really sick
虽然没有沙门氏菌这些导致疾病的细菌
but they had the first cousins to those
但至少有一些此类细菌的近亲
And it turns out that those Firmicutes are actually really good at doing exactly what the Bacteroidetes do
这些厚壁菌门细菌其实同拟杆菌门细菌作用类似
