The thing I find most astounding is that we're only learning these things in 2024. You would think the study of our bacteria would be something we understood well 50 years ago. I'm glad it's...
“A lot of people would suspect that the bacteria shared among us would be the most important and thus the most stable,” Snyder said. “We found the complete opposite — the personal microbiome is the most stable. It further suggests that our personal microbiome, different from everyone else’s personal microbiome, is pretty integral to our health. This makes sense because all have different healthy baselines.”
The new data, the researchers said, closes the door on the idea that there is a gold standard microbiome everyone should be trying to achieve for optimal health.
The thing I find most astounding is that we're only learning these things in 2024. You would think the study of our bacteria would be something we understood well 50 years ago. I'm glad it's happening though - there seem to be more studies coming out linking our bacteria biomes to significant diseases, like diabetes and Alzheimer's.
The thing I find most astounding is that we're only learning these things in 2024. You would think the study of our bacteria would be something we understood well 50 years ago. I'm glad it's happening though - there seem to be more studies coming out linking our bacteria biomes to significant diseases, like diabetes and Alzheimer's.
Many species are extremely difficult to culture in the lab, which inhibits research progress. Soil bacteria research suffers from this, for example.
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