Our body is, in essence, more ecosystem than organism.
The human body teems with trillions of microbes — bacteria, viruses and fungi — and at any moment, we may be carrying between one and three pounds of these micro-hitchhikers in colonies on our skin, groin, mouths, and sinuses. By far, however, the gut microbiome ecosystem — the largest and most complex — is the one that has both academic researchers and pharmaceutical companies hooked
Source: Bugs as Drugs: Seeking the Microbial Secret to Health
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