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“When the microbiota of people living in Western cultures was analyzed in comparison with that of people living in rural settings who had hunter-gatherer–type…

— Sarah Ballantyne

“The bacteria species in your colon today are more or less the same ones you had when you were six months old. About 80…

— Mary Roach

The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and patrol our…

— 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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“…I learned in biology class that more bacteria live and work in one centimeter of my colon, than the number of people who have…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A lot of people have so many issues like depression, obesity or chronic illness that has to do with gut health.

— Rachele Brooke Smith

“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