Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello (front), a scientist at Rutgers University in the US, visits tribes in the Amazon to collect faecal samples thought to hold the answers to improving our gut health. Photo: Rutgers
World Health Day 2022: how our gut bacteria are affected by modern diets and medicines, and the couple who study jungle tribes’ poo looking for solutions
- Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello and husband Martin Blaser look for answers to fixing our gut health in remote places untouched by Western diets and antibiotics
- Their new film covers their race to identify bacteria essential to human health, and how they might be restored through probiotics and other treatments
Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello (front), a scientist at Rutgers University in the US, visits tribes in the Amazon to collect faecal samples thought to hold the answers to improving our gut health. Photo: Rutgers
