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rramadasstoday at 7:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

Perhaps there is also a direct correlation between this microbiome and longevity in the so-called "blue zones" of the world like Okinawa, Sardinia etc.

We are what we eat.


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patmorgan23today at 7:59 PM

IIRC there are several of the "Blue Zones" where just bad government records. (People who had incorrect birth dates, or had already died and the government just didn't know about it)

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jareklupinskitoday at 8:33 PM

> We are what we eat.

putting together a theory on how bacteria organized multicellular life to exploit our macro-movements and proliferate between damp spots

tvshtrtoday at 7:57 PM

Some of the blue zones were disproven, due to falsified documentation or lack of it.