A 15-day biodiversity intervention with horses in a farm system leads to acquisition of health-promoting features in the gut microbiome of 10 urban Italian children
Marco Candela,
Daniel Scicchitano,
Lucia Foresto
et al.
Abstract:In order to evaluate the possibility to shape the human gut microbiome (GM) through the interaction with natural ecosystems, we explored the impact of a 15-day biodiversity intervention with horses on the GM of 10 urban-living Italian children. The children GM was metagenomically assessed before and after 10hr/day daily interaction with horses in an educational farm. The horses’ skin, oral, and fecal microbiomes were similarly assessed as well. We found that the interaction with horses facilitates the acquisit… Show more
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