{"id":102372,"date":"2020-02-14T14:23:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/skin-and-mouth-biomarkers-more-predictive-than-gut"},"modified":"2020-02-14T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:23:09","slug":"skin-and-mouth-biomarkers-more-predictive-than-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/skin-and-mouth-biomarkers-more-predictive-than-gut","title":{"rendered":"Skin and Mouth Biomarkers More Predictive Than Gut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/skin-and-mouth-biomarkers-more-predictive-than-gut2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lifespan.io<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\ufeff A new <a href=\"https:\/\/msystems.asm.org\/content\/5\/1\/e00630-19\">study<\/a> published in <i>mSystems<\/i>, a journal from the American Society for Microbiology, shows that the skin and mouth microbiomes are better predictors of age than the gut microbiome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A very broad study<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The authors used a very large population that is highly impressive among studies of this kind. Previously, a team containing some of the same researchers had done a gut microbiome study of over four thousand people from multiple countries [1]. This time, the researchers took skin, saliva, and fecal samples from roughly 2,000, 2,500, and 4,500 people, respectively; this study was done with nearly 9,000 people in total, and the team stated that it was the most comprehensive microbiome study done to date. The team used a \u201crandom forest\u201d machine learning approach to determine what microbiota were and were not predictive of age [2].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifespan.io \ufeff A new study published in mSystems, a journal from the American Society for Microbiology, shows that the skin and mouth microbiomes are better predictors of age than the gut microbiome. A very broad study The authors used a very large population that is highly impressive among studies of this kind. Previously, a team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}