We have about 100 to 200 times more genetic material in our microbium than we do in our own chromosomes. An earthworm has about 30 thousand functional gens. Humans can adapt to almost any environment on this earth. No other animal species does that, right? You don't have polar bears living in in the forests and you don't have eno lions living in the jungles of india,. They don't adapt o the environment well. But humans can. Andis it's led to all kinds of problems for us? Yes. Is that i sort of what underlies like the hygiene hypothesis, that exactly, because we've become so much more sterile as society, specially relative

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