Irish Travellers have a gut microbiome which differs strikingly from that of the non-Traveller settled community, and it confers considerable health benefits on them, scientists in University College Cork have discovered.The microbiome is the genetic mix of microbes in the body that mostly live in the human gut.The study, led by Prof Fergus Shanahan at APC Microbiome research institute, helps explain why Travellers are unlikely to get inflammatory conditions such Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis and ulcerative colitis.A modern way of life increases risk of such chronic diseases in part...…Irish Travellers have a gut microbiome which differs strikingly from that of the non-Traveller settled community, and it confers considerable health benefits on them, scientists in University College Cork have discovered.The microbiome is the genetic mix of microbes in the body that mostly live in the human gut.The study, led by Prof Fergus Shanahan at APC Microbiome research institute, helps explain why Travellers are unlikely to get inflammatory conditions such Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis and ulcerative colitis.A modern way of life increases risk of such chronic diseases in part...WW…