Social Contacts Share Microbiomes
Friends – and even friends of those friends – help shape your microbiome, which shows another way that being social affects our health. While the linked article points out some drawbacks, it ultimately reminds us that having healthy social connections – and sharing others' microbiomes – has plenty of benefits, too.
Your friends shape your microbiome — and so do their friends
Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom.
Saima Sidik