Switching to hunter-gatherer lifestyle may increase diversity in children’s gut microbes

Published on August 29, 2018

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.

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