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

— Steven Gundry

“Interestingly, there is even less diversity of gut bacteria in obese people than in lean people: more food does not equal more nutrition, and…

— Sarah Ballantyne

“Okay, but what about microbial disease? “To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than one percent of them threaten our health…

— Michael Pollan

“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

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in…

— Michael Pollan

“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

“The microbiome may vary from day to day, from sunrise to sunset, or even from meal to meal, but such variations are small compared…

— Ed Yong

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

“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 microbiologists first started cataloguing the human microbiome in its entirety they hoped to discover a "core" microbiome: a group of species that everyone…

— Ed Yong

“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

“According to pioneering microbiologist Lynn Margulis, "fully 10 percent of our own dry body weight consists of bacteria, some of which, although they are…

— Marcia Bjornerud