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Researchers found 2,368 unique species of bacteria after swabbing just 60 belly buttons, according to a report in The Atlantic. Of these, 1,458 may have been completely new to science. In this same study, one man's belly button was found to be home to bacteria previously known to exist only in the soil of Japan. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/personal-hygiene-facts_n_4217839.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
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People are so anti-bacterial that it makes us sick by removing the good bacteria. This is an interesting read:
Our bodies are an entire ecosystem of microbes. Without bacteria we could not exist as we are now. Heres another good article describing that the formerly believed "useless" appendix actually acts as a bacteria safe house that helps to sustain...
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