GUT BACTERIA DIVERSITY

Consider 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, who’d never met anyone outside their own cultural group.

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.

Another amazing piece of research 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 microbi-omes rich in bacteria that help to digest fibers.

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

3Finally, just in case I’ve 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.

GUT BACTERIA DIVERSITY

Consider 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, who’d never met anyone outside their own cultural group.

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.

Another amazing piece of research 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 microbi-omes rich in bacteria that help to digest fibers.

1 2

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

3Finally, just in case I’ve 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.