Science fact: About half of your body is bacteria

Science fact: About half of your body is bacteria.

Science fact: About half of your body is bacteria. That’s right. A 2014 study estimates that the human body consists of 39 trillion bacteria and 30 trillion human cells. In the past, researchers thought we were more bacteria than human with a ratio of 10:1. While this new calculation is probably closer to the true numbers, it’s not a hard fact.

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