“That’s three to five pounds of bacteria,” says Lita Proctor, the program coordinator of the National Institutes of Health’s Human Microbiome Project, which studies the communities of bacteria living on and in us. The bacteria cells in our body …. account for only about 1 to 2 percent of our body mass—though they do make up about half of our body’s waste."
Night-Gaunt49 said,
“The ‘bad’ bacteria versus the ‘good’ bacteria we already have that makes up most of our weight.”
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Nope, they weigh 3 — 5 pounds, per:
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http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-09/fyi-how-much-bacteria-do-people-carry-around
“That’s three to five pounds of bacteria,” says Lita Proctor, the program coordinator of the National Institutes of Health’s Human Microbiome Project, which studies the communities of bacteria living on and in us. The bacteria cells in our body …. account for only about 1 to 2 percent of our body mass—though they do make up about half of our body’s waste."