How our microbiome is shaped by family, friends and even neighbors
People living in same household or in regular contact tend to have same microbes in their guts & mouths. The study raises possibility that diseases linked to #microbiome dysfunction, including #cancer, #diabetes & #obesity, could be partly transmissible. People living in the same household share more than just a roof (and pints of milk). Be they family or flatmate, housemates tend to have the same microbes colonizing their bodies, and the longer the cohabitation, the more sim