>In just the last few years we have realized that human bodies contain ten times more cells that are bacteria, than they contain cells that have our DNA in them, though the bacterial mass is only about 3% of our body weight. Before that we thought we were mostly us.
I am really interested to see where this goes. How much of this bacteria determines which diseases we get?
Me too. But I was distracted by the author saying at the end "Before that we thought we were mostly us."
Idk what conventional opinion would be, but the mass part is a lot more important in my mind than the number of cells part. We're still be 97% 'us' by mass. As an off the top of my head example, Jupiter is mostly the big gas planet thing, not the 79 or so moons that orbit it.
I am really interested to see where this goes. How much of this bacteria determines which diseases we get?