Sea said:Stuart said:@ Sea
You didn't answer my question. Why do you think You were born with a microbiome? What is it's function do you think? Don't worry about answering for every other animal on the face of the earth from insects up - who, odd as it seems, also have one. Just yours.
I thought I explained that I think bacteria infect humans. I think that the function of bacteria are to eat and reproduce. In humans I think that bacteria slow our metabolic rates down which makes it easier for them to expand and eat more of our food. Some bacteria are known to lower our stomach acid and use other tactics so that we digest less food and they get more leftovers. I think they slowly kill the human and have a big feast once the human dies and loses its defenses against bacteria.
Fair enough :)