[for the gut geeks among us] Modern humans have only spent 5 percent of our history as farmers. Before that, most of our species were foragers of some type or other. 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. “The Hadza not only lack the ‘healthy bacteria,’ and they don’t suffer from the diseases we suffer from, but they also have high levels of bacteria that are associated with disease.” wired/2014/04/hadza-hunter-gatherer-gut-microbiome/
Posted on: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 17:40:21 +0000
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