The Tiny Team Running Your Health (and How to Keep It Happy) You may think of yourself as a single individual but, biologically speaking, you’re more like a bustling metropolis. Trillions of microbes, collectively known as your microbiota, live in and on your body, especially in your gut. And far from being freeloaders, they’re hard […]
A huge number of microbes live in and on us. They’re in our lungs, mouths and intestines, and on our skin. Scientists know they help us digest, breaking down what we eat, but they are discovering that each individual’s microbiome, the collection of microbes in their body, helps protect them. For example, bacteria in the […]
