I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

by Ed Yong

Even now, the photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans produce the oxygen in half the breaths you take, and they lock away an equal amount of carbon dioxide.

there are more bacteria in your gut than there are stars in our galaxy.

The immune system’s main function is to manage our relationships with our resident microbes. It’s more about balance and good management than defence and destruction.

Every person aerosolises around 37 million bacteria per hour.