{"id":1718,"date":"2010-07-13T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2010-07-13T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T23:12:07","slug":"you-may-think-that-you-have-a-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1718","title":{"rendered":"You May Think that You Have a ‘Self’"},"content":{"rendered":"

But maybe you are just the talking part of a large collection of bacteria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We continue to be colonized every day of our lives. \u201cSurrounding us and infusing us is this cloud of microbes,\u201d said Jeffrey Gordon of Washington University. We end up with different species, but those species generally carry out the same essential chemistry that we need to survive. One of those tasks is breaking down complex plant molecules. \u201cWe have a pathetic number of enzymes encoded in the human genome, whereas microbes have a large arsenal,\u201d said Dr. Gordon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don’t miss the part about the fecal transplants. All these health nuts giving themselves high colonics<\/a> may be going at it backwards, so to speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But maybe you are just the talking part of a large collection of bacteria. We continue to be colonized every day of our lives. \u201cSurrounding us and infusing us is this cloud of microbes,\u201d said Jeffrey Gordon of Washington University. 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