Small white words drift across grass, forest, mushroom, microscopy, and portrait footage, linking close-up natural textures with a softly lit human figure.
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Who are you?
A body.
A habitat.
A world.
You are not just human.
You are also microbial: human cells and microbial cells living in relationship, shaping the ecosystem you carry everywhere.
This October, remember:
You carry about as many bacterial cells as human cells.
100% you.
100% superorganism.
¹ Sender, R., Fuchs, S., & Milo, R. (2016). Revised estimates for the number of human and bacteria cells in the body. PLOS Biology, 14(8), e1002533. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002533
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