3 dispatches
This month’s paper (from open access journal PLoS ONE) is yet again about the impact on our health of the bacteria which have decided to call our bodies home. But, instead of the bacteria living in our gut, this month is about the bacteria which live on our skin. It’s been known that the bacteria that live on our skin help give us our particular odors.
Source: Healthy Soul November’s paper was published in Naturein 2006, and covers a topic I’ve become increasingly interested in: the impact of the bacteria that have colonized our bodies on our health (something I’ve blogged about here and here). The idea that our bodies are, in some ways, more bacteria than human (there are 10x more gut bacteria – or flora — than human cells...
Source: Precision Nutrition The paper I will talk about this month is from April of this year and highlights the diversity of our “gut flora” (a pleasant way to describe the many bacteria which live in our digestive tract and help us digest the food we eat). Specifically, this paper highlights how a particular bacteria in the digestive tracts of some Japanese individuals has...