Blog 8 - Continuation of Human Microbiome

I am going to be continuing this blog with the same article I used last week. Like I stated before, this article is very long, and very dense. It has a lot of information about personal experiences from the author, and many facts.

    I ended last weeks with the information about living communities and the microbes in a babies gut. When the author was in Boulder, he actually had a microbiologist, Catherine A. Lozupone, look at his Microbiome. As you may know, everyone has a different Microbiome. Usually people have a “normal” gut, and are very similar. But gut biomes can differ from various populations around the world. Scientists have conducted tests from thousands of different communities in and outside the U.S. The American Gut project will be able to uncover patterns between people’s lifestyles, diet, health, and various makeups of their bodies Microbiome.

 “microbially speaking: we share unusually high levels of prevotella for Americans. Our gut communities look more like those of rural Africans or Amerindians than like those of our neighbors.” Lozupone said.

The gut Microbiome is a very popular subject in scientific research. It is increasing in popularity, and most scientists are conducting more and more tests from around the world, to help them better understand what is actually going on in there.

This article is very well written. I like how the author writes about personal experiences he has with microbiologists, and the different things he has discovered with them. This article has so much useful information, and is one of the best articles I have read so far.

    

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html?pagewanted=all&action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry116%23%2Fmicrobiome%2F&_r=0