aphar ([personal profile] aphar) wrote2010-04-08 11:23 am

Japanese Guts Are Made for Sushi

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/04/japanese-guts-are-made-for-sushi.html

a new study ... finds that Japanese people harbor enzymes in their intestinal bacteria that help them digest seaweed... Japanese may have first acquired these enzymes by eating bacteria that thrive on seaweed in the open ocean.