You are an #ecosystem—home to the trillions of #microbial #symbionts who #co-evolved with you.⠀ ⠀ The #majority of them reside in your #gut, which is why you may have heard of the term ‘gut #health’. But beyond your #gastrointestinal tract, you also have #communities of vastly different #species in your #nose 👃🏽, your groin, and on your #skin, etc. Some #microbes prefer to live on the #cool, #dry skin of your #knee. Others gravitate towards the #warm, wet #darkness of your #mouth. They are #tiny #ecosystems as different from each other as the #rainforest and the #desert. Wherever they live, they’ve evolved to #thrive there.⠀ ⠀ 🧐 #Fun #fact: your inner #elbow microbes have more in common with mine than then they do with your inner #forearm microbes, just a few inches away.⠀ ⠀ ______________⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ Source | Carl Warner.