05/09/2023
The Earth Inside Us (or The Invisible Self)
Asthma and Allergy Center's Dr. Greg Sharon examines the old adage “you are what you eat” and the impact our environment has on our health.
The human being has always been defined as an individual organism. However, modern science has shown that we are not truly alone. We, in fact, are not even Human. We are symbionts, or a collection of distinct species that work together or, like any society, sometimes fight as a unit.
“If I were to remove any trace of human cells, you would still be recognizable as you but look like a mist of bacteria, virus, fungus, parasites, and animals all working together to make you,” said Dr. Greg Sharon, the founder of the Asthma and Allergy Center. “We call this collection of disparate microorganisms the microbiome. It consists of microbes that are both helpful and potentially harmful.”
Most non-human organisms are symbiotic (we both benefit) and some, in smaller numbers, are pathogenic (can cause a disease). In a healthy body, pathogenic and symbiotic microbiota coexist without problems in most cases.
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