NY Times: 40 Trillion Bacteria on and in Us? Fewer Than We Thought.
40 Trillion Bacteria on and in Us? Fewer Than We Thought I love science. As we have learned more and more about the human body we have come to understand that our complex gut is a actually a biome, a large community of plants and animals. Our microbiome, as it’s called, is fundamentally important to our overall well being. But just how many of these little microbes were on and in us has been somewhat puzzling for researchers for the last couple of decades. Starting in 1972, Thomas D. Luckey published an article in The American Journal of Clinical...
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