This article is fascinating. I love how different the bacteria is in the tribes as compared to the US and Italians. We still have so much to learn about gut flora and health. I know bacteria adapts to environment and how much and what we eat, but this article breaks all the rules. It makes me want to go to Africa. In Western Tanzania tribes of wandering foragers called Hadza eat a diet of roots, berries, and game. According to a new study, their guts are home to a microbial community unlike anything that’s been seen before in a modern human population — providing, perhaps, a snapshot of what the human gut microbiome looked like before our ancestors figured out how to farm about 12,000 years ago. It indicates that the ecosystem in our guts adapts not only to our diets but to the environments we live in. Researchers have known for decades that the biota in our gut vary depending on what we eat. But the Hadza microbiome still turned out to be surprisingly different. Fascinating! wired/2014/04/hadza-hunter-gatherer-gut-microbiome/
Posted on: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:00:01 +0000
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