The microbiome isn’t what it used to be in many parts of the world. The shift may be affecting the well-being of people in industrialized countries.
Both the European Food Safety Authority the U.S. Department of Agriculture warn that increasing sea surface temperatures can expand the range and season of Vibrio infections making seafood potentially more dangerous for human consumption.
Some researchers have theorised that ultra-processed foods increase inflammation because they are recognised by the body as foreign – much like an invading bacteria. The body mounts an inflammatory response, which has been dubbed “fast food fever”.
Molecular anthropologist Christina Warinner, graduate student James Fellows Yates, and a large international team looked at the oral bacteria stuck to the teeth of Neanderthals and preagriculture modern humans that lived more than 10,000 years ago.
An argument for additional alimentary arthropods
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