{"id":491,"date":"2025-08-07T12:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T19:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/?p=491"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:05:26","slug":"491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/2025\/08\/07\/491\/","title":{"rendered":"How does immigration to Canada impact the gut microbiome?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Explore our <\/strong>newest publication<\/a> from the Gibson Lab on how immigration to Canada affects the gut microbiome in Indian migrants.<\/strong><\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Our study found that first- and second-generation Indian migrants exhibit a shift away from a traditional Indian microbiome toward a westernized microbiome. This shift was most pronounced in the second generation Indo-Canadians, and was also correlated with significant dietary changes, specifically, an increased consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On average, 61% of calories consumed daily by Indo-Canadians were from UPFs, whereas UPFs made up only 12% of the daily caloric intake in Indians living in India. This dramatic change in dietary patterns highlights a major factor that may be influencing such a drastic transition in the gut microbiome in those who migrate to westernized countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more, read the paper here: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41522-025-00778-8.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Explore our newest publication from the Gibson Lab on how immigration to Canada affects the gut microbiome in Indian migrants. Our study found that first- and second-generation Indian migrants exhibit a shift away from a traditional Indian microbiome toward a westernized microbiome. This shift was most pronounced in the second generation Indo-Canadians, and was also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gibsonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}