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Teleport every one of your cells into the next room, and you'd leave a strange shadow behind.
A ghostly cloud of single-celled creatures that live on and inside your body.
Your microbiome.
Zoom in and we can see this cloud is made of bacteria, fungi, and others…
Like these in the gut, that digest fiber and give us nutrients we can't make ourselves.
Or these, that munch our skin oils and give off our characteristic body odors.
Even the film of plaque we brush off your teeth was put there by microbes.
You're teeming with microscopic life.
Or rather, you were.
