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


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When Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello travels to the Amazon jungle and tells villagers the reason for her visit, their first response is often laughter. “Did you come all this way just to see my poop?” they ask. She did – no humour intended – and she has been doing it for more than 20 years. She and husband Martin Blaser, both scientists at Rutgers University in the US state of New Jersey, are the stars of a new documentary called The Invisible Extinction , describing their years of research on how modern diet and medicine are disrupting our internal colonies of...