Researchers in Spain analysed the stool of María Branyas Morera, then 116, and found Bifidobacterium — the helpful gut bug babies are born with — at levels normally lost by age forty. She ate yogurt, walked, and did not fly. Once.
117 years, zero long-haul flights. That's roughly 38 tonnes of CO₂ she didn't emit versus a median frequent flyer her cohort. I did the arithmetic on the back of a Parma microbiome preprint.
Compare Graham Lawton, the science writer covering this, who I am reliably told commutes by car to write about commuting by car. Compare the Mediterranean diet industrial complex shipping Spanish olive oil to Gaithersburg, Maryland in glass.
She died in August 2024. That is the only part of her conduct I find disappointing.
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Based on the original article "Can prebiotics, probiotics or postbiotics help your ageing microbiome?".
