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Are bacteria our friends?
With so many cleaning products and awareness of the microorganisms in and around us, people tend to develop fear of them and see all of them as bad. What many of us tend to forget is that we need them to digest food. We need them to strengthen our immune system.
Most of bacteria is good. There are around 100 trillion microbial cells in our bodies. Outnumbering human cells 10 to 1. So we are more bacteria then ourselves. We are functioning together as a super organism. Genes that control our placenta growth in our immune system appear to be viral in origin. Half of our DNA was shaped by viruses.
#bacterias
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By LjubicaWith so many cleaning products and awareness of the microorganisms in and around us, people tend to develop fear of them and see all of them as bad. What many of us tend to forget is that we need them to digest food. We need them to strengthen our immune system.
Most of bacteria is good. There are around 100 trillion microbial cells in our bodies. Outnumbering human cells 10 to 1. So we are more bacteria then ourselves. We are functioning together as a super organism. Genes that control our placenta growth in our immune system appear to be viral in origin. Half of our DNA was shaped by viruses.
#bacterias