CRP and cancer: Nut polyphenols were reported to increase the abundance of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus bacteria, probiotic strains related to significant lowering of CRP concentrations and increase in plasma HDL-C, cancer prevention, immune-modulation, as well as reductions of pathogenic Clostridium species and enteropathogens Salmonella typhimurium or Staphylococcus aureus [202,203].