NAT MED: The impact of forced lifestyle changes on human microbiome and health?

!---- Modern lifestyles increase the risk of chronic diseases, in part because of changes in the microbiome, but so far we have not done enough to study the health effects of minority lifestyleslifestyle can affect the microbiome early in life, when the microbiome assembly and immune system are maturing, studies of genetically diverse groups living in the same geographic location have helped us separate lifestyle influences from genetic and geographic factorsIrish travellers, a racially distinct sub-group, were effectively brought to an end to nomadic ness as a result of the 2002 legislation that effectively ended their living conditionsCompared to thegut microbiome show that Irish travellers retain a microbiome similar to that of a non-industrial societytheir microbiome is associated with non-dietary factors and is proportionally linked to the risk of microbial-related metabolic diseasestherefore, the results show that when minorities are under pressure to change their lives, there are public health effects associated with the microbiome