Perhaps there is also a direct correlation between this microbiome and longevity in the so-called "blue zones" of the world like Okinawa, Sardinia etc.

We are what we eat.

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patmorgan23 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

IIRC there are several of the "Blue Zones" where just bad government records. (People who had incorrect birth dates, or had already died and the government just didn't know about it)

	▲	SV_BubbleTime 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Jose DeSanquin Demarco of Bolivia is now the world’s oldest man at 117, he attributes his health to 10 hours daily in the sun and fields farming quinoa. Photographed here, Jose’s 90 year old wife holds their newborn twins.

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jareklupinski 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> We are what we eat.

putting together a theory on how bacteria organized multicellular life to exploit our macro-movements and proliferate between damp spots

	▲	rramadass 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Do you mean you work in this domain and are working on the above theory?

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tvshtr 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some of the blue zones were disproven, due to falsified documentation or lack of it.

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rramadass 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Addendum to my above thought,

Roseburia also seems to correlate with longevity;

The Gut Microbiome, Aging, and Longevity: A Systematic Review - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7762384/

Deep insights into the gut microbial community of extreme longevity in south Chinese centenarians by ultra-deep metagenomics and large-scale culturomics - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-022-00282-3