Research has recently shown that cells that are actually human make up only 43% of our body.
Believe it or not, a recent BBC study has shown that more than half of your body is not human!
Accordingly, genetic scientists confirm that the cells that are really human make up only 43% of our body, the remaining 57% belong to “subsistence” – microorganisms.
Specifically, Professor Ruth Ley – Director of Microscience at the prestigious Max Planck Research Institute (Germany) shared: “Knowing, understanding the microorganisms that make up our bodies is very important in order to help us maintain our health. decode health, find disease”.
More than half of your body is not human!
And no matter how much you scrub and cleanse your body, almost every part of your body is covered with these microscopic creatures. It can be bacteria, viruses, fungi … and a group of microscopic organisms called archaea – all of them live parasitic, creeping all over your body, affecting the pathogenesis of disease.
Professor Rob Knight of the University of California San Diego told the BBC the human genome is made up of about 20,000 genes, while there could be as many as 20 million microbial genes in our bodies.
Professor Sarkis Mazmanian, a microbiologist at Caltech – California Institute of Technology – USA, said: “We don’t just have one genome, the genes of our microbiome are now thought to be.” second genome “.
The genes of our microbiome are now thought to be the second set of genes.
It would be naive to think that we only carry bacteria on us, but they have no interaction or effect on our bodies.
And science is quickly figuring out the role that microorganism plays in the digestive system, regulating the immune system, protecting the body against disease.
“We’re looking for ways to have these little creatures completely transform our health in ways we never imagined but benefit us,” said Professor Knight.
Or to put it more simply, it’s a new way of looking at the microbial world. To date, our relationship with bacteria has been largely a war.
I have succeeded in fighting many dangerous diseases such as smallpox with medicine, or immunotherapy. But this also means that, in the future, new diseases will arise, although less dangerous, but also need to be addressed.
Controlling the microbiome in the body is the key to solving the disease that is now considered incurable.
According to Professor Ruth Ley, the current surge in autoimmune and allergic diseases represents a widespread change in the human microbiome.
Even in obesity, bacteria play a big role. Professor Knight said that if we transplant the bacteria of an obese person into another living organism such as a lab mouse, we will see it gain weight quickly even without binge eating.
That proves that, understanding and controlling the microbiome in the body is the key to solving the disease, which is still considered incurable. It’s a safer way if you keep trying to “smash” the drug and suffer its side effects.
Scientists hope that making friends with the microbial world, fixing a few things in each person’s microbiome can open up new directions to treat difficult-to-treat diseases in the future.