Behalf Quote by Michael Specter

“The bacteria don't physically reshape the gut themselves. Instead, they work via their hosts. They are more management than labour. Lora Hooper demonstrated this…

— Ed Yong

“Biologists discovered the microbiome just over the past couple of decades. They are still puzzling out how the microbes in your body help keep…

— Bill Nye

“We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal,…

— Michael Specter

“nine of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species (most of them residents of our gut),…

— Michael Pollan

When we look at 105-year-old people around the world, they carry the diverse gut microbiome of 30-year-old people.

— Steven Gundry

“Even the majority of the cells in your body are microorganisms. They outnumber the cells of your body by 10 to 1. Those microbes…

— Bill Nye

“This is a miracle of coevolution—the bacteria that coexist with us in our bodies enable us to exist. Microbiologist Michael Wilson notes that “each…

— Sandor Ellix Katz

“The microbiome affects our mood, libido, metabolism, immunity, and even our perception of the world and the clarity of our thoughts. It helps determine…

— David Perlmutter

“The pH rises in the intestines and bacterial numbers increase a millionfold from about 1,000 cells per gram of stomach contents, which to a…

— Anne E. Maczulak

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

— Walter Gilbert

I love weird science. I learned in an article in 'National Geographic' that there are trillions of bacteria in our guts that help us…

— Will Hobbs

All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even…

— Bonnie Bassler