Did You Know?

• Most individuals have between three and five pounds of microbes living in their gut, roughly the same weight as your brain.
• Your body is composed of around 10 trillion human cells but hosts around 100 trillion bacterial cells. Your body’s bacteria cells outnumber your own human cells ten to one.
• About 99.9 percent of the unique genes in your body are bacterial, with only about 0.1% being human.
• The microbiota of a healthy person provides protection from pathogens that enter the body through drinking or eating contaminated water or food.
• Changing what you eat can improve your gut microbiome in as little as 3 days.