You Are Mainly Microbe… Meet Your Microbiome!
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We humans tend to obsess over cleanliness. We wear masks in public when we feel a cold coming on, we cover ourselves daily in scented soaps and antibacterial gel, and we’re crazy about our hand sanitizer. But no matter how much we steam, sterilize or scrub ourselves, we’re still outnumbered by our inner ecosystem. Meet your “microbiome.” The average adult human is made up of about ten trillion cells, but each of us is carrying ten times that number of bacteria--a hundred trillion microbes--on our skin, hair, mouths, and inside of our intestines. You and I and everyone on Earth is mostly microbe. But we’re not born that way. We start out in a sterile womb, completely free of bacteria, and we get our first dose of bacteria before we’re even done being born. As we pass throug...
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We humans tend to obsess over cleanliness. We wear masks in public when we feel a cold coming on, we cover ourselves daily in scented soaps and antibacterial gel, and we’re crazy about our hand sanitizer. But no matter how much we steam, sterilize or scrub ourselves, we’re still outnumbered by our inner ecosystem. Meet your “microbiome.” The average adult human is made up of about ten trillion cells, but each of us is carrying ten times that number of bacteria--a hundred trillion microbes--on our skin, hair, mouths, and inside of our intestines. You and I and everyone on Earth is mostly microbe. But we’re not born that way. We start out in a sterile womb, completely free of bacteria, and we get our first dose of bacteria before we’re even done being born. As we pass throug...
