Andrew Huberman· PhD
the collective genome of our gut microbes is on the order of 100 to 500 times larger than our human genome.
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the collective genome of our gut microbes is on the order of 100 to 500 times larger than our human genome.
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I heard something like there's more cells in our microbiome by far than there are in our body. So we're actually more-- in terms of a cell per cell level, we're actually more bacteria than we are eukaryote.
the microbiome out numbers up and the exact scale of that is debated it seems to change every year or so by how much they outnumber us but it's definitely in the billions uh maybe up to the trillions but it's it's high up there i mean the the amount that lives in the large intestine is is pretty i mean let's put it in this perspective there are 400 billion stars in the milky way galaxy you have more bacteria in your gut than there are stars in the milky way yeah the numbers i've seen are 10 to the 15th 10 to the 16th and those are at least an order of magnitude greater than the number of human cells in our body so that we are more in some ways we are we're more microbe than we are human if you start thinking about it and what's even crazier is that the dna so the collective dna blueprint of the microbiome is a it's a hundred times more than our own dna