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Yeah, it's always better not to look too close. Just wait til you find out what lives in your mouth!

Reminds me of this piece detailing the writer's own "microbiome":

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/06/27/discoverin...



On the contrary, it's better to look close. Death to the public squeamishness about human biology, I say! Know and understand how your body travels through life, don't fear it and put it out of your mind :)


If I remember correctly, our guts have more bacteria surface exposure than our own cells. The interactions betwen what we eat , these bacteria, and our own genome is a big black box at this stage.




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