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Diet influences intestinal microflora composition, which has an important role in the fermentation of dietary fibers leading to the production of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs), such as butyrate. Butyrate exerts multiple beneficial effects at intestinal and extraintestinal level, related at least in part to the epigenetic regulation of gene expression.
