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by kaitai 4197 days ago
This complements other research that has been done on gut bacteria across cultures -- in different places we humans eat different prevailing diets:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/05/0...

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/hadza-hunter-gatherer-gut-micro...

The second link is particularly interesting, as the Hadza hunter-gatherers have a lot of gut bacteria that cause disease in the west. So it seems that gut bacteria aren't the whole story. Something to complicate the story for people who want to cure mental illness or create skinny people via manipulating gut bacteria.