We're consuming a lot of really highly processed calorie-dense food that's incredibly sterile, so they lack the microbial reservoirs for these gene transfer events.

我们正在消耗令人难以置信的真正高度加工的高热量的无菌食品，它们缺乏对微生物的基因转移至关重要的基因库。

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To make insulin, for example, your cells of your pancreas have to be transcribing that gene, it has to be processed, has to be translated into the protein insulin.

举例来说,如果要合成胰岛素,你的胰腺细胞必须先转录那一段基因,然后进行加工,继而翻译成为胰岛素蛋白

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They have a change in a gene called Methylenetetrahydofolate Reductase, which alters the way folic acid is processed in the body.

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