meRfi®-GM
The Digital Textbook on Gut Microbiota and Beyond

Each person has their own unique microbiota, complicating the identification of a consistent health-related microbial ecology.
Strati et al. 2022 Semin Immunol 59: 101599

Even if it is not yet known what constitutes a healthy or unhealthy gut microbiota, high alfa diversity appears to be more beneficial than low alfa diversity.

Healthier diet, childhood and current exposures to rural environment and pets, exposure to green space and higher income share signals with healthy microbiome patterns.
Gacesa et al. 2022 Nature 604: 732

These observations support the microbiome diversity hypothesis (also called the hygiene hypothesis), which postulates that reduced exposure to microbiota contributes to an increase in…