Jeff Leach (photo above from Scientific American – click the image for the link) has re-wilded his gut microbiome by adopting the eating habits of the Hadza, a hunter gatherer group in Tanzania. He also gave himself a fecal transplantation from a Hadza donor…click here for a vivid first hand description

For discussion (no writing assignment for this week). After the journal discussions we will discuss the topics included in these readings.

Readings:

1. Excerpt from 2013, Paleofantasy by Marlene Zuk
2.  Genne-Bacon Thinking evolutionarily about obesity.
3. Jeff Leach Paleo microbiota

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Joe Alcock

Emergency Physician, Educator, Researcher, interested in the microbiome, evolution, and medicine