You Don’t Control Your Immune System: The Microbiome
Pepper
It’s your immune system. But you don’t fully control it. Because you are not just you. You are actually an superorganism of millions of bacteria, fungi and viruses that live on and in you.
The immune system belongs to the whole ecosystem, and works to protect all the organisms in the ecosystem, not just you. So it is controlled by all the organisms.
The thing in, you are outnumbered 1 to 1 billion by your microbes. Who do you think is doing most of the work?
