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10 days of fasting reshapes the gut virome, and the viral-bacterial network stays reorganized 90 days after eating resumes


When you stop eating for more than four days, the trillions of bacteria in your gut reorganize fast. Now, for the first time, researchers have mapped what happens to the viruses that control those bacteria.

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