Modern Hunter-Gatherers Have Thriving Gut Microbiome, Compared with Californians

Re:Modern Hunter-Gatherers Have Thriving Gut Microbiome, Com... by chrisbuc on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @06:32AM (#36491091)

A forager friend of mine has just completed participating in a gut biome study (in conjunction with the UK Zoe project), where he and other foragers have been only eating wild foraged food for 3 months. A pretty good achievement for him (although he lost about 20kg over the 3 months). He blogged daily photos of what he ate on insta: https://www.instagram.com/rural_courses/

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Re:Modern Hunter-Gatherers Have Thriving Gut Microbiome, Com... by xenonite on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @07:07AM (#36491292)

So what was the result?

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Re:Modern Hunter-Gatherers Have Thriving Gut Microbiome, Com... by chrisbuc on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @08:20AM (#36491792)

He only finished last week - all goes into the research project. More here: https://monicawilde.com/the-wildbiome-project/

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Re:Modern Hunter-Gatherers Have Thriving Gut Microbiome, Com... by tuukkah on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:34AM (#36492486)

I suppose it's best to start with 1 or 3 months of 100% foraged food like they are doing. If that works, later experiments can find out whether less than 100% is enough.

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Re:Modern Hunter-Gatherers Have Thriving Gut Microbiome, Com... by tuukkah on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @07:20AM (#36491367)

That would be an interesting data point in the higher end.

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