The Alternative Stable State of Skin Microbiome

In western US society today we would also be less yummy probably to people we would want to date. Most studies of skin microbiomes for the last 40 years are of college age people in the US and Europe, disproportionately white college students. And so that's really biased what we know about the standard skin microbiome. Just in the last couple of years there have been a number of studies that have begun to study populations from other parts of the world. One Yanomami teenager if memory serves from an indigenous group in the Amazon whose skin microbiome was studied had more kinds of microbes on their skin than at that point we'd done from a thousand people in theUS.