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Why Parking Your Car Is Such a Pain & How Invisible Microbes Shape Your World

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The Different Types of Microbes in Our Body

Do we all have basically the same microbes in our body? I mean, what are the chances that the microbes in my body are more or less the same as the ones in your body? Or are they really different? Defining a healthy microbiome is an ongoing debate at the minute. So it's kind of difficult to define and sort of extrapolate to everybody across the world. Each of us have different requirements. And one microbiome might look different to the other, but it might not necessarily be healthier than the other. But there's also a concept called functional redundancy. Even though you might have different species in your body to mine, they may have the same functional roles.

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