Living Together Means Sharing More Than Just a Home…

Living Together Means Sharing More Than Just a Home, You're Sharing Your Microbiome Too Who you share a roof with may be quietly shaping your gut health. A new study published in Cell, covering 430 people across 207 households in Italy and Fiji, found that people who live together share significantly more of their gut and oral microbes than people from the same community who don't live together. Cohabiting individuals shared an average of 19% of their gut microbiome strains and 26% of their oral microbiome strains. People living in different households shared just 6% and 0% respectively. Interestingly, the relationship type didn't matter much. Siblings, parents, children: all shared similar numbers of microbial strains with each other. Romantic couples shared significantly more oral microbes