Switching to hunter-gatherer lifestyle may increase diversity in children's gut microbes
Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - 19:30
in Health & Medicine
Immersing city dwellers in the traditional lifestyle and diet of a rainforest village for two weeks increases the diversity of the visiting children's -- but not the adults' -- gut microbiota. In a small pilot study, researchers show that the immersion visit did little to shift the adults' skin, oral, nasal and fecal microbiota.