Monday, August 27, 2012

Gut Bugs


How Gut Bugs Make You Sick — or Well

SIMKO
Once inside the gut, clostridium bacteria may play a role in the development of autism
You are not alone – ever. All day, every day, you’re in the company of millions of other creatures, even when there’s not another soul in sight. More unsettling still, those unseen others live inside you.
The invisible population that calls you home is known as your microbiome — the millions of nonhuman cells that populate your body, particularly your intestines and other parts of your digestive system. If you could extract them all, they’d fill a half gallon jug. And if you could count them all, they’d outnumber your own cells 10 to 1. The only reason they don’t outweigh us 10 to 1 too is that our own cells are much larger than the bugs are./.../

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