PETALING JAYA: A preliminary study by Malaysian scientists on the gut of orang asli has made a breakthrough in understanding inflammatory bowel diseases -– a chronic condition of the digestive tract that causes diarrhoea, pain, fatigue and weight loss.
A Universiti Malaya parasitology team compared the bacteria found in 75 Temuan tribe in rural areas with those of 20 people living in urban Kuala Lumpur and found that rural people had much less Bacteriodes, the bad bacteria thought to promote inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).
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