If you remove all microbes from the human body, then together with them fifty-seven percent of the substance that makes up the body will disappear. That is, we are fifty-seven percent microorganisms, say scientists from the United States of America.
Employees of the University of California, San Diego, calculated the volume occupied by bacteria in the human body, and came to the incredible conclusions: it turned out that human cells are only forty-three percent of our body.
“Surprisingly, the fact is that humans are actually more microbes than humans,” says Professor Rob Knight, lead author of the study.
Knight adds that all of these microbes are extremely important - they are the ones that make our basic biological systems work properly. This is, in particular, the digestive and immune systems. “Microbes, however, have their own genetic code - that is, their DNA is different from the DNA of our cells. But it is the combination of microbes with cells that makes us human,”the scientist adds.
What conclusion can be drawn from all this? Very simple - be careful with antibiotics.
Kolesnikov Andrey