CAN YOUR GUT BACTERIA PREDICT YOUR AGE AND LIFESTYLE? NEW STUDY SAYS YES
By Tarun Sai Lomte
By analyzing co-abundance networks in 938 healthy adults, scientists discovered how lifestyle factors subtly rewire bacterial relationships in the gut, offering a more powerful way to predict health traits than abundance-based models.
Study: Cross and inter-family interactions for age, sex, smoking and BMI. Image Credit: Christoph Burgstedt / Shutterstock
In a recent study published in the journal Communications Biology, researchers investigated environmental factors associated with co-abundance in the human gut microbiome.
2025-11-10T03:18:19Z