Resistant starches newest big topic

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Dear Doctors: I’ve been learning about the gut microbiome, and the terminology keeps changing. I understand probiotics. Then came prebiotics and postbiotics, which I think I finally get. But now people are talking about resistant starch. What is it, and why is it important?

Dear Reader: It’s fascinating how quickly academic research into the gut microbiome moves into the public domai…