It's been known for some time that our gut microbes differ depending on what we eat. Researchers are surprised to find out when the gut microbes of the Hazda tribe are drastically different from anything they've ever seen.
This week I am going to base my blog on the article, "The Surprising Gut Microbes of African Hunter-Gatherers" by Nick Stockton. Stockton presents the facts about the study without sounding bias or as if he is giving his own opinion. He uses quotes from scholarly microbiologists and a nutritional anthropologist implementing the ethos rhetorical element into his work. By using credible sources and siting their credentials in his paper (ie. "said co-author Alyssa Crittenden, a nutritional anthropologist from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.") this makes Stockton's article more convincing and trustworthy. When deciding which article to blog about every week, I tend to leave behind the ones that don't have any quotes from credible sources or sources at all, for that matter; they just aren't reliable!
Another way Stockton incorporates ethos into this article is by presenting a study done on the Hazda tribe gut microbes. "To study the difference between the ancient and modern gut, researchers analyzed stool samples from 16 Italian urbanites and 27 Hadza foragers, of both genders." The reader is then presented with the picture I placed below, which I found very helpful; pictures are always beneficial to the reader when writing an essay or an article!

 

Stockton presents the study in a way that somebody who 'Isn't even close to being a scientist but is still interested in microbes' can still understand (like me.)
Throughout my blogging career (about 3/4 of a semester) I've learned a lot about gut microbes. My all-time favorite microbe fact so far is that there are six pounds of microbes in our gut alone... more or less! I think there is a lot to learn about the microbes in our gut and they can tell us a lot about our bodies and human life as a whole!