• whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    There are about the same number of bacteria cells in your body as human cells, and some of the bacteria in your intestines, ‘gut biome’, can affect your preferences for certain foods effectively controlling your mind.

    A ‘reference man’ (one who is 70 kilograms, 20–30 years old and 1.7 metres tall) contains on average about 30 trillion human cells and 39 trillion bacteria,

    https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.19136

    Is eating behavior manipulated by the gastrointestinal microbiota? Evolutionary pressures and potential mechanisms:

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.201400071

    That probably freaks me out just as much as time passing not being fundamental under B time indicated by general relativity or free will being illusory and the universe is more likely deterministic.