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It's both difficult and largely unethical to do intervention studies on people, and we don't know how to measure individual differences between people very well.

For instance, studying gut biomes of people is mainly done by looking at their poop but that doesn't help you know what kind of bacteria are where in their intestines, and it's not like you can take them apart.



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