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Today I learned that our bodies are actually more bacteria than human! For every human cell, there are approximately 1.3 bacterial cells living in and on us! That's roughly 39 trillion bacterial cells vs. 30 trillion human cells! Mind-blown!

Read more pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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