The Essential Book Of Fermentation - Plot & Excerpts
These ecosystems are in our mouths—some on the tongue, some on the lining of the cheeks, some on teeth, even with different ecosystems on different sides of the teeth. Some of our intestinal flora—the lactobacilli—are part of healthy mouth ecosystems that prevent tooth decay, while some are part of systems whose production of acid eats into enamel and encourages tooth decay.There’s an ecosystem up your nose, in your vagina, on your eyeball, and different ecosystems on the back of the knee and the front of the knee, on the wrist and on the back of the hand, and these differ from the ones on each digit of your fingers. If you compare the bacteria on two people’s hands, only about 13 percent of the total will be the same. If you compare bacteria on one person’s left and right hands, only about 17 percent of the bacteria will be the same.You get the idea: We are not just ourselves, we are a conglomerate superorganism, a veritable landscape of microorganisms. Think of the landscape of a typical long-abandoned field in the mid-Atlantic states.
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