The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
the thing to think about with the hot sun when i first heard this and then saw the the data on them like you know we're preaching diversity but they have more diversity than we do and their diet is way narrower than the western diet you know they're not eating all these greens and all these different vegetables uh but they are intimately connected to the earth yes they are
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they they have um they actually don't have bifidobacterium these include an absence of bifid bacterium but they have a healthy gut they don't have gut disease they don't have gut issues they don't have gastric inflammation they don't have inflammatory bowel disease so this really challenges our notion of what a healthy gut microbiome is
the hadza enterocyte microbiome was characterized by a greater amount of adhesive microorganisms with a pathogenic potential such as proteobacteria
the hadza don't have gi disease they don't have inflammatory bowel disease how can we make blanket statements like the proteobacter species or the species or the genus proteobacter excuse me the proteobacter phylum the phyla proteobacter how can that be characterized as unanimously bad
Except as I was hinting at earlier in the podcast many of these organisms do not appear to be pathogenic in this context.
And they appear to have a pretty darn healthy microbiome. This is a paper saying the enterocyte associated microbiome of Hadzabe hunter-gatherers. They say compared to Italians, the Hadzabe enterocyte associated microbiome was characterized by a greater amount of adhesive microorganisms with pathogenic potential such as proteobacteria. Uh enterococcus, clostridium, sarcina. Erysipelotrichaceae. But, as is so often understood or misunderstood, the context here is that the Hadzabe have very healthy guts.
But, as is so often understood or misunderstood, the context here is that the Hadzabe have very healthy guts. They don't have inflammatory bowel disease. They don't have irritable bowel syndrome. They don't have lots of gas. I was around them for a long time. I never heard a single Hadzabe fart. They don't have lots of colon cancer as far as we can tell as far as we can tell.