Microbiome as a window into history

Despite facing an increased risk of chronic disease later in life, remote Indigenous babies start life with a more diverse gut microbiome. 

A new study in Nature also found the infants have bacteria that have completely disappeared from non-Indigenous populations. 

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References

• Eating For Your Liver - Liver Foundation
• 2025 Cervical Cancer Elimination Progress Report
• Indigenous infants in remote Australia retain an ancestral gut microbiome despite encroaching Westernization