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New research from Stanford and published in Cell last month has revealed some surprising details about the body's microbiome. Individual microbiomes are very stable in healthy people. During either acute or chronic disease like diabetes, the microbiome becomes dysregulated, less stable, and less diverse.
When the researchers focused on which microbes were most likely to change over the course of years, they were surprised to find that the bacteria most particular to an individual were the most stable. Over 6 yrs, the bacteria that persisted best in each person’s microbiome were those that were most particular to the individual, rather than those shared across the population.
“A lot of people would suspect that the bacteria shared among us would be the most important and thus the most stable,” Snyder said. “We found the complete opposite — the personal microbiome is the most stable. It further suggests that our personal microbiome, different from everyone else’s personal microbiome, is pretty integral to our health. "
https://med.stanford.edu/.../03/personal-microbiome.html
https://www.cell.com/cell.../fulltext/S1931-3128(24)00056-8

Our bacteria are more personal than we thought, Stanford Medicine-led study shows Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues tracked the gut, mouth, nose and skin bacteria of 86 people for as long as six years to try to gauge what constitutes a healthy microbiome.