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Wellness Corner

Here is a very timely article we all should know about, our bodies are ecosystems and we must live in harmony. The average adult is made up of about 100 trillion cells and 70 trillion of those are not you - they are bacteria, parasites, etc which are needed to keep your body healthy. It is about balance.

Dr. Randy

Your Skin? It's a Thriving Bacterial Zoo

By Lauran Neergaard

Associated Press

Published: Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:40 p.m. MDT

WASHINGTON — Eeeww. There's a zoo full of critters living on your skin — a bacterial zoo, that is. Consider your underarm a rain forest.

Healthy skin is home to a much wider variety of bacteria than scientists ever knew, says the first big census of our co-inhabitants.

And that's not a bad thing, said genetics specialist Julia Segre of the National Institutes of Health, who led the research.

Sure they make your sneakers stinky, "but they also keep your skin moist and make sure if you get a wound that (dangerous) bacteria don't enter your bloodstream," she said. "We take a lot for granted in terms of how much they contribute to our health."

People's bodies are ecosystems, believed home to trillions of bacteria, fungi and other microbes that naturally coexist in the skin, the digestive tract and other spots. underarm and forearm……...

…………………Which are good bugs, and which bad? That depends. A common skin bacteria is Staph epidermidis, found all over the body. Segre said it helps protect us from its nasty cousin, Staph aureus, which about a third of people are thought to carry on the skin or in their nose even if they have no active infection.

Then there's the scrubbing question, society's antibacterial obsession.

"There's an all-out assault on our normal skin organisms," Blaser noted. "In trying to get rid of the bad guys, are we getting rid of the good guys?"

Segre hopes knowing there are so many bacteria alters how people think about the relationship.

"I'm a mother of two small children; I believe very strongly in sanitation, washing your hands," Segre said. But, "we have to understand that we live in harmony with bacteria and they are part of us as super-organisms ... and not just conceive of bacteria as bad and germs and smelly."