Cleaner Living Doesn't Guarantee Longer Living

Even harmless bacteria continuously consume the energy of their unsuspecting hosts and hasten their deaths, or so the conventional thinking in the scientific community went until just recently. New findings now show that fruit flies meticulously scrubbed clean of bacteria and maintained in a bacteria-free environment do not outlive their infested brethren by any significant amount of time. In both flies and humans, because the number of bacteria living both inside and outside of the body (on the skin, hair, and other external areas) increases with age, researchers expected infestations to prove harmful by depleting their hosts' resources over an extended period of time, contributing to a degradation of energy and eventual death.

In order to test the theory, University of Southern California scientists and their colleagues compared normal fruit flies with ones born from eggs washed in antibiotics and raised in a bacteria-free, strictly controlled environment. The flies even ate disinfected food to ensure contamination would not be introduced to the flies through natural consumption.

Surprisingly, the highly monitored testing revealed that normal fruit flies and the super clean fruit flies both had the same life span of approximately 65 days. Although experiments similar to these cannot be replicated in higher organisms like birds, domestic animals or even humans, which need bacteria for proper digestion and other essential functions, the investigators say their results have helped to narrow down which factors contribute to limitations of animal longevity. Additional studies are planned with focus applied to those factors affecting short term reduction of energy like illnesses and health related problems.

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