Jacqueline Howard
huffingtonpost.com
January 22, 2014


Did you know that you’re not just one living thing? No, you’re actually an entire ecosystem of teeny tiny, creepy crawly, living microbes. They’re all over — from your skin to gut to even your sex organs. Oh my.

What role do these microbes play in our bodies? How do they affect us, and how can we make the most of them? I reached out to Dr. Justin Sonnenburg, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, to find out. Click on the video above to hear the amazing things he told me (full transcript below). Talk nerdy to me!

Did you know that you’re not just one living thing? No, you’re actually an entire ecosystem of teeny tiny, creepy crawly, living microbes. They’re all over — from your skin to gut to even your sex organs. Oh my.

What role do these microbes play in our bodies? How do they affect us, and how can we make the most of them? I reached out to Dr. Justin Sonnenburg, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, to find out. Click on the video above to hear the amazing things he told me (full transcript below). Talk nerdy to me!

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