Gut Microbiota of Sarawak's "Orang Ulu" Indigenous Community in East Malaysia Reveals Vanish Microbes: A Comparison With Urban Communities.

Summary: Imagine your gut is like a bustling rainforest. In this forest, having many different types of trees and animals makes it healthy and strong. Scientists recently studied the "forest" of gut bacteria in the "Orang Ulu" Indigenous people living in rural villages in Malaysia. They compared them to people living in big, modern cities.

They discovered that the rural Indigenous people had the healthiest, most crowded, and most diverse "forest" of gut bacteria. But as people move to cities and change how they live and eat, they lose some of these helpful bacteria—they simply vanish! This study shows that modern city life and changing lifestyles can actually make our gut bacteria less diverse and potentially less healthy.