Healthy Soil Microbes, Healthy People

According five-year National Institutes of Health’s Human Microbiome Project, we are told we should think of ourselves as a “superorganism,” a residence for microbes with whom we have coevolved, who perform critical functions and provide services to us, and who outnumber our own human cells ten to one. An article published in the Atlantic shows that the microbial community in the ground is as important as the one in our guts.