Science AMA Series: We're the researchers from Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute who recently reported on 'The gut microbiota of healthy aged Chinese is similar to that of the healthy young' and we are here to talk about the study and its implications. AMA!

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We examined over 1000 super-healthy participants in China (http://ift.tt/2yFqNeM). Not an easy task in any country especially when the criteria included no history of diseases! Our research team from Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute found that the microbiota of people in those aged around 100 was very similar to that of people many years younger - in other words, a decline in the microbiota is not necessarily inevitable in the healthy aged population. This raises many questions - can microbes help us age better? Is healthy aging simply reflected in our microbiota? Could we transplant 'young' microbes to ailing elderly? We are a scientific team at the Canadian Centre for Human Microbiome and Probiotic Research (http://ift.tt/2gOaL7t) who helped set up the Tiyani Health Sciences Centre where the samples and data for this study were collected. We have ideas on how this study might direct future studies, which we and some members of our team would love to discuss with you and answer any questions you may have.

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Dr. Greg Gloor (http://ggloor.github.io) is a Professor of Biochemistry at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry who designs robust tools for the analysis of microbiome, metagenome and metatranscriptome experiments using compositional data analysis. Dr. Gloor was the corresponding author and conducted most of the analyses reported in the paper.

Dr. Gregor Reid (http://ift.tt/2ieNkVj) has pioneered probiotic research and applications to human health around the world.

Dr. Jeremy Burton (http://ift.tt/2gOaMbx) is part of the Canadian Centre for Human Microbiome and Probiotics Research, holds the Miriam Burnett Chair in Urological Sciences, and is an Assistant Professor at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.

Dr. Jean Macklaim is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Greg Gloor’s lab using computational biology and next-generation sequencing to understand the functional relationships between bacterial microbiota and their host/environment

">Science AMA Series: We're the researchers from Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute who recently reported on 'The gut microbiota of healthy aged Chinese is similar to that of the healthy young' and we are here to talk about the study and its implications. AMA!