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magical thyme

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12. we are each of us already more bacteria than human beings
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 07:36 AM
Nov 2012

Most of what we think of as our bodies is commensurate and symbiotic bacteria. They live in our gut and help us digest our food, live on our skin and in its pores, where they help prime our immune systems, etc. In fact, the mitochondria that are "energy factory" organelles inside every cell of our body most likely was once a bacteria species existing in such deep symbiosis that it lost its separate identity.

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