Our microbiome
July 14, 2017 — July 14, 2017
adaptive
ecology
food
gene
Human commensal microbiome (gut, sweat, etc.).
I’m interested in health implications of considering your body as an ecosystem, with all the weirdness that entails. Or, if you’d like, considering us as a superorganism whose cells are 90% inhuman, and whose genes are 99% inhuman, according to the beeb.
1 The curious phenomenon of poo transplants
…which are big in Sydney.
There is, of course, a company that makes medical turds, openbiome.