Cindy left a small glass of salt water outside on her windowsill on a warm day. She remembered the glass a couple days later, bu
t when she went to get it, she discovered that the water was gone and all that was left in the glass was a layer of salty residue. If the salt and water were well mixed when Cindy took the glass outside, how did this happen?
Thus, it was found that the intestinal microbiota has approximately 100 trillion bacterial cells - about ten times more than the total number of cells in the human body.