We are all Made of Stars, err Bacteria

Ok this is not what I needed to start the day. According to this study published in Scientific America, we have 10x more bacteria in our body than human cells. This leads me to the question; Are we human at all, or just big sacks of bacteria.
All the bacteria living inside you would fill a half-gallon jug; there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than human cells, according to Carolyn Bohach, a microbiologist at the University of Idaho (U.I.), along with other estimates from scientific studies. (Despite their vast numbers, bacteria don’t take up that much space because bacteria are far smaller than human cells.) Although that sounds pretty gross, it’s actually a very good thing.

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