xenobiotics

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Humans, having evolved as omnivores, are actually very good digesters of xenobiotics (foreign chemicals).

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(biology) Any foreign compound not produced by an organism's metabolism.

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noun

(biology) Any foreign compound not produced by an organism's metabolism.

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noun

(biology) Any foreign compound not produced by an organism's metabolism.

Example sentences

Humans, having evolved as omnivores, are actually very good digesters of xenobiotics (foreign chemicals).

Intestinal bacteria also have a role in the synthesis of vitamins B and K and the metabolism of bile acids, other sterols and xenobiotics.

Humans and rats consume lots of xenobiotics due to our versatile diets - neuroscience, anything below the prefrontal cortex is pretty well conserved between rats and primates - cancer - kinda garbage.

Sorry not trying to be pedantic but predicting what xenobiotics (ie foreign molecules) will do in the human body, much less a diverse sample of them is a really really really hard problem.

Many potential neurotoxins are circulating in our blood, including those from endogenous sources such as metabolites or proteins, or exogenous ones such as xenobiotics ingested in the diet or otherwise acquired from the environment.

Gut microbiome is a complex ecosystem where 1014 microorganisms play several roles in host nutrition, bone mineralization, immune system regulation, xenobiotics metabolism, proliferation of intestinal cells, and protection against pathogens.