Healthy Youth and Seniors Have Similar Gut Microbiomes

Healthy elderly people have something in common with adults decades younger: a similar gut microbiota composition. Researchers at Canada’s Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute and Tianyi Health Science Institute in China studied the gut bacteria in a group of more than 1,000 healthy Chinese individuals ranging in age from 3 to over 100 years old. They found a direct correlation between health and the microbial population in the intestine and showed that there was little …