Bryan Johnson· Author
Like each one of us is almost 70 trillion cells. In fact uh the average human is 38 trillion bacterial cells and 30 trillion human cells. So we are more alien or more bacteria than we are human.
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Like each one of us is almost 70 trillion cells. In fact uh the average human is 38 trillion bacterial cells and 30 trillion human cells. So we are more alien or more bacteria than we are human.
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you know we have 38 trillion microbes in our body and we're only thirty trillion human we are more microbial than human cells and this actually if we were to sterilize our body we would die
i think the most recent estimate that i'm aware of was from i believe 2014 and they estimated 3.8 trillion bacterial cells which is about 1.3 times the amount of human cells