{"id":723,"date":"2010-11-03T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T00:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2011-01-16T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T04:47:38","slug":"the-bacterial-part-of-our-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/03\/the-bacterial-part-of-our-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"The bacterial part of our bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some quotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miller-mccune.com\/science-environment\/bacteria-r-us-23628\/\">Bacteria &#8216;R&#8217; Us<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nthe vast majority \u2014 estimated by many scientists at 90 percent \u2014 of the cells in what you think of as your body are actually bacteria\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>researchers describe bacteria that communicate in sophisticated ways, take concerted action, influence human physiology, alter human thinking and work together to bioengineer the environment. These findings may foreshadow new medical procedures that encourage bacterial participation in human health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Many researchers are coming to view such diseases as manifestations of imbalance in the ecology of the microbes inhabiting the human body. If further evidence bears this out, medicine is about to undergo a profound paradigm shift, and medical treatment could regularly involve kindness to microbes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>bacteria \u201chave to have a reason to hurt you.\u201d Surgery is just such a reason.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>bacteria that have antibiotic-resistance genes advertise the fact, attracting other bacteria shopping for those genes; the latter then emit pheromones to signal their willingness to close the deal. These phenomena, Herbert Levine\u2019s group argues, reveal a capacity for language long considered unique to humans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some quotes from Bacteria &#8216;R&#8217; Us: the vast majority \u2014 estimated by many scientists at 90 percent \u2014 of the cells in what you think of as your body are actually bacteria researchers describe bacteria that communicate in sophisticated ways, take concerted action, influence human physiology, alter human thinking and work together to bioengineer the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-bF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}