A closer look
The secret to curing global starvation is hiding inside soiled diapers. Scientists analyzing the fecal metabolomics of children suffering from kwashiorkor—a severe form of malnutrition—discovered that simply giving them food is not enough to save them. Their gut microbiomes are so fundamentally broken that their bodies cannot synthesize vital amino acids, requiring targeted bacterial therapies to reboot their intestines before a single calorie of actual food can be properly absorbed.
