Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes

Re:Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes by haklport on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:10PM (#31938653)

"Moeller and others also suggest identifying the missing microbes may be the first step toward bringing them back. “If we determine that these groups were providing important functions to keep humans healthy,” Maccaro says, “perhaps we can restore them with probiotics.”

Oh really? Nice submarine for Actimel, Yakult etc.

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Re:Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes by antiterra on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:27PM (#31938848)

Unfortunately, the most effective treatment I know of to change gut biome is bacteriotherapy via a method many people find off-putting and violating.

I think, for the time being, people are much more likely to accept a probiotic.

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Re:Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes by thematrixturtle on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:35PM (#31940129)

I take it you mean fecal transplants, aka inserting somebody else's feces up your rectum?

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Re:Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes by insamniac on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:39PM (#31955984)

transpoosion

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Re:Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes by wtetzner on Thursday June 30, 2022 @08:21PM (#31940549)

Kinda feels like identifying the missing microbes should instead help us track down what we’re doing that’s causing them to die off.

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Re:Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes by zdragnar on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:27PM (#31938850)

Well, it's either a pill, or moving out of the city, or a fecal transplant (assuming that the urban / rural divide is relevant, and not just a proxy for diet).

I don't live in the city, but if I were told that I would be healthier with more of these microbes that my environment doesn't support, I'd opt for the pill.

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Re:Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes by jgrantx on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:39PM (#31938975)

Doing nothing is also an option! I'm not aware of an indigestion epidemic among city dwellers.

Being told to do something is not sufficient, especially when multi-billion dollar industries are behind it.

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Re:Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes by bawolff on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:46PM (#31939053)

More research is needed.

However there is an obseity epidemic and a depression epidemic, and its plausible they are related. Which doesn't mean they are, but seems like something worth looking into.

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Re:Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes by dannyperson on Thursday June 30, 2022 @06:35PM (#31939577)

The study compares humans (who happen to live in cities) to primates (who definitely don't live in cities). It doesn't compare between human populations.

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Re:Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes by zdragnar on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:09PM (#31939873)

The content I replied to implied that the article was a submarine advertisement for pills.

If there is a problem in need of a solution, and it isn't diet related, I'd much prefer the pill over there other options.

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