Microbial Noe's Arc in Switzerland

[PsychedelicEagle]

There's a project called the Microbiota Vault Initiative that's been quietly banking human microbiome samples as a hedge against what researchers call the "disappearing microbiota" — the loss of microbial diversity that comes with antibiotics, C-sections, formula feeding, and industrialized diets.

They've actually collected so far:

• 1,204 human fecal specimens
• 190 fermented food samples
• From Benin, Brazil, Ethiopia, Ghana, Laos, Thailand and Switzerland

Everything is cryopreserved at −80 °C at the University of Zurich. The next stage is expanding into environmental microbiota from threatened ecosystems.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRy3_7BkjhM/
https://www.microbiotavault.org/

How well are you taking care of your microbiota? 😉