10 % HUMAN

You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hi tching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, y ou will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in microbes. You are not an individual but a colony.Until recently, we had thought our microbes hardly mattered, but science is revealing a different story, one in which microbes run our bodies and beco ming a h...[Read more]