Our bacteria are more personal than we thought, Stanford Medicine-led study shows
med.stanford.edu
Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues tracked the gut, mouth, nose and skin bacteria of 86 people for as long as six years to try to gauge what constitutes a healthy microbiome.
  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    5·
    9 months ago

    the bacteria that persisted best in each person’s microbiome were those that were most particular to the individual, rather than those shared by the entire population.

    This reads like “Study finds that trees in a rainforest are most likely to be trees that are suited to the rainforest, rather than other trees”

  • Emmy@lemmy.nz
    2·
    9 months ago

    I would love it if they actually gave us good standards. The US ones are garbage.

  • fracture [he/him] @beehaw.org
    2·
    9 months ago

    god bless the people giving stool samples so often for the studies. FOUR TIMES A YEAR FOR SIX YEARS?? i did it once and it was awful. and more frequently if they got vaxxed or sick? i would cry