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New Study: 8 AMAZING things you (probably) never knew about gut bacteria

Toni Harman
8 min readFeb 20, 2023

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QUICK SUMMARY: A new study published in Nature reveals 8 amazing nuggets of knowledge about the gut microbiome, including this one: When you are 85 years old, you will still have strains of gut bacteria inherited from your mum.

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A new study reveals 8 fascinating things about the microbiome that you probably never knew.

Especially the incredible “staying power” of strains of gut bacteria inherited from your mum during vaginal birth — according to this study, those strains will be with you your whole life!

Not just that, the study also reveals how species of bacteria are shared between members of the same house and even the same community.

The new study was published in Nature by Valles-Colomer, M. et al., 18 January 2023.

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Toni Harman
Toni Harman

Written by Toni Harman

I help parents and health professionals better understand the science of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and the microbiome. http://microbiomecourses.com

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