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Just thought this after the made of worms post.

What are the worms full of? Bacteria. Our gut bacteria is vital so are we eating so they can process it for us or are we eating to feed them?

Lots of these bacteria probably exist without us. We can't exist without them but we do make a very nice house where they can live. So they keep us around.

Hopefully our bacterial overlords won't rise up against us any time soon.

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago

We’re bags of bacteria, made up of cells that are bags of mitochondria.

[-] gasgiant@lemmy.ml 6 points 17 hours ago

Where do the midi-chlorians come into it?

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

I left another comment explaining it better, but in short

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis

[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I just jam acidophillus capsules right up into my vagina. don't need a billion CFUs if they don't need to worry about your stomach acid! sometimes colonization IS the answer! (this is gonna be my problematic quote in 20 years).

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

Are you using the oral ones or a specific suppository?

[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

nope just the oral ones and not even every day just as a refresher every few weeks or even once a month or less when I get smelly and it fixes it!

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