# @seed on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BhuJjpeFxZp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34247967-seed-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-04-18T18:00:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Seed (@seed) — https://gondola.cc/seed

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You are an #ecosystem—home to the trillions of #microbial #symbionts who #co-evolved with you.⠀
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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.⠀
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🧐 #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.⠀
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Source | Carl Warner.

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elbow, desert, species, warm, majority, symbionts, forearm, communities, gastrointestinal, co, rainforest, nose, knee, fact, skin, health, fun, tiny, mouth, microbes, microbial, thrive, ecosystem, cool, dry, ecosystems, darkness, gut

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