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New Research Shows Our Gut Microbiome Evolved with Us
Turns out our gut microbes were passed down to us over thousands of generations, kinda like our genes.
Even though I’m fully vaccinated and boosted and got my flu shot, I still got sick last week. All tests said negative for Covid, so it seems it was just the flu, but let me tell you, it was terrible. It was the type where you can’t focus on anything other than how awful you feel, not to mention any movement on a screen makes you hurl your guts out, so even watching tv was a no-go.
But it was while I was doing exactly that — my head hung on the toilet, drenched in sweat, wondering if this is how it all ends — that my mind turned to my gut microbiome. In between dry heaves, I wondered if science has learned anything more about our guts and the microbes within them since I last wrote about them. (Inspiration really can strike anywhere.) Now, here we are because it turns out science has indeed.
Gut Microbes Recap
If you didn’t know, our gastrointestinal (GI) tract is home to a shit-ton of microbiomes, which are mainly made of bacteria. By “a shit-ton,” I mean that you have over two pounds of microorganisms living in your GI tract — that’s more than 100 trillion of them, which is over twice the number…
