Indigenous babies born with more gut bugs

Despite facing an increased risk of chronic disease later in life, remote Indigenous babies start life with a more diverse gut microbiome.

A new study in Nature also found the infants have bacteria that have completely disappeared from non-Indigenous populations.

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References

Eating For Your Liver - Liver Foundation2025 Cervical Cancer Elimination Progress ReportIndigenous infants in remote Australia retain an ancestral gut microbiome despite encroaching Westernization