Delaying Age Related Diseases by Keeping Gut Bacteria in Balance | Neuroscience News
Interesting research here, showing that fiddling with the gut bacteria of fruit flies as they age can significantly increase their life expectancy. It would be pretty amazing if they could squeeze an extra 10 years or so of average healthy human life by adjustments to our own gut microbes, too.
As as aside: I wonder if some scientist is out there gathering the poop of particularly healthy 80 or 90 year olds, and checking the composition of its microbes. Given the massive interest in this area of research now, I wouldn't be surprised...
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