David’s Reviews > The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today > Status Update
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What a breakthrough! Introducing a parasite into patients with sever Crohn's cured the disease! Killing "germs" improved human health but we've been killing everything instead of carefully tending our personal gardens of flora and fauna. We're going to have to get comfortable with the idea of things living in and on us.
— Nov 21, 2011 07:08PM
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We have taste buds in our guts. They taste but they're not connected to our conscious brain, so we're not aware of what they taste. Similarly, blindsighted people see without knowing it!
— Nov 24, 2011 11:17PM
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"We have no horns, sharp teeth, or even hair to impede digestion. We are nearly as well packaged for consumption as a hot dog."
— Nov 24, 2011 12:35PM
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The appendix is not a useless, vestigial organ: it's a storehouse of bacteria to replenish the flora and fauna of our tummies. How about that?
— Nov 23, 2011 02:30PM
