The intestinal microbiome has an important role in health and disease; however, the long-term effects of lifestyle choices on microbiome alterations are incompletely understood. Here, based on extensive lifestyle and medical data collected over 26 years, Si et al. demonstrate that long-term life history can predict current enterotype in older adults.
- Jiyeon Si
- Jorge F. Vázquez-Castellanos
- Jeroen Raes