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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Osteoporos Rep. 2020 Oct 8;18(6):677–683. doi: 10.1007/s11914-020-00627-x

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

A cartoon illustrating links between the gut microbiome and bone in some of the studies discussed in this review [12, 36, 26••, 66••]. Microbial short chain fatty acids, stimulation of the immune system and microbe-derived vitamin K have been proposed/shown to influence osteoclast and osteoblast activity.