Many of those gut bacteria are also the source of vitamins you absorb. You'd have some serious malnutrition problems if they never recovered. You'd also likely have succumbed to some other serious infections, since the non-pathogenic gut bacteria usually outcompete more harmful species.
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Date: 2010-Sep-14, Tuesday 11:56 pm (UTC)