
MicroBiome: The Puppet Master Influencing Cravings
The ecological community of bacteria, fungi, viruses and single-cell organisms living in your body are known as the microbiome, aka microbiota. These trillions upon trillions of microbes call your body home. They make up about 3% of your total body weight and are just as numerous as human cells, despite what you may have heard about there being 10 times more bacterial cells. With approximately 5000 different species living in and on you at any one time, it is believed these