Re: food choices affect the bacteria in our gut

Pretty sure she was from Israel.

On Nov 28, 7:08 am, Giovanni Lostumbo <giovanni.lostu...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> This article says that there are three distinct gut types:https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/science/21gut.html?_r=1similar to
> how blood types are separated. I'm also curious if world or regional
> travel affects it, though I remember an NPR program about a couple
> years ago about a worm/bug that grew inside a woman from the Middle
> East and by moving to the United States and being in more sanitary
> environments, the bug disappeared, but she also became sick because
> the worm served a mutualistic role in what ever organ it lived in. So
> in that case, I can imagine having to be limited to living in certain
> parts of the world, or taking supplements of a live microorganism...
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> On Nov 8, 11:53 am, William Reinhardt <wreinha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Does extended travel to a different country result in an entire
> > transplanted gut flora? Or perhaps just provide an available niche
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> > On Nov 8, 7:31 am, Rob <rmpeitz...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > There have been a couple of papers over the years linking different
> > > distributions in the populations of bacteria in the gut to obesity.
> > > In one of the studies, they transplanted the gut flora from obese mice
> > > to lean mice and they became obese, and visa-versa.  If anyone is
> > > interested, I'm sure I've got the citations around somewhere.  There
> > > was another paper I vaguely remember trying to link gut flora to
> > > Parkinson's Disease.

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