GUT BACTERIA DIVERSITY

Another amazing piece of research

The results of a painstaking study published
after seven years of research showed that the
Yanomami have the highest gut bacterial
diversity ever reported in a human group
twice as high as the average American
city-dweller.
Incredibly, some of their
bacterial strains also had
antibiotic-resistant genes
despite them obviously never
having taking antibiotics.

onsider this: In 2008, research headed by a

microbiologist at New York University studied
the microbiomes of 12 hunter-gatherers from
the Yanomami people in Venezuela, whod never
met anyone outside their own cultural group.

SOURCE: http://www.ubiomeblog.com/does-where-you-live-affect-the-type-of-bacteria-in-your-gut/

was conducted in 2014, focused on

27 Hadza people from Tanzania in
East Africa.

Although the Hadza are modern

humans, their lifestyle is believed to
closely resemble that of Palaeolithic
tribes.
Like the Yanomami, the Hadza are
also hunter-gatherers, and once
again they showed substantially
greater bacterial diversity than the
average American, with microbiomes rich in bacteria that help to
digest fibers.

Finally, just in case Ive led you to conclude that all

the geographic microbiome studies involve remote
tribes people and hunter-gatherers, consider a
fascinating 2010 study which showed that some
Japanese individuals are able to extract otherwise
inaccessible nutrients from seaweed (the average
Japanese person eats 14 grams of it a day) by
virtue of ingesting a type of marine bacteria which
then transfers its genes to gut bacteria.

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Another amazing piece of research

The results of a painstaking study published
after seven years of research showed that the
Yanomami have the highest gut bacterial
diversity ever reported in a human group
twice as high as the average American
city-dweller.
Incredibly, some of their
bacterial strains also had
antibiotic-resistant genes
despite them obviously never
having taking antibiotics.

onsider this: In 2008, research headed by a

microbiologist at New York University studied
the microbiomes of 12 hunter-gatherers from
the Yanomami people in Venezuela, whod never
met anyone outside their own cultural group.

SOURCE: http://www.ubiomeblog.com/does-where-you-live-affect-the-type-of-bacteria-in-your-gut/

was conducted in 2014, focused on

27 Hadza people from Tanzania in
East Africa.

Although the Hadza are modern

humans, their lifestyle is believed to
closely resemble that of Palaeolithic
tribes.
Like the Yanomami, the Hadza are
also hunter-gatherers, and once
again they showed substantially
greater bacterial diversity than the
average American, with microbiomes rich in bacteria that help to
digest fibers.

Finally, just in case Ive led you to conclude that all

the geographic microbiome studies involve remote
tribes people and hunter-gatherers, consider a
fascinating 2010 study which showed that some
Japanese individuals are able to extract otherwise
inaccessible nutrients from seaweed (the average
Japanese person eats 14 grams of it a day) by
virtue of ingesting a type of marine bacteria which
then transfers its genes to gut bacteria.