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Books by Justin Sonnenburg

Justin Sonnenburg is a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University, where his lab studies the relationship between gut microbiota and human health. He co-wrote The Good Gut with his wife Erica Sonnenburg, also a researcher at Stanford. Their subsequent research, including a widely cited 2021 Cell paper comparing high-fiber and high-fermented-food diets, has become influential in the field. The Sonnenburgs are among the more publicly engaged researchers working on microbiome science.