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what's in your innie?

Taking on the challenges ordinary people wouldn’t dare, a team of scientists wanted to find out exactly what lives in your belly button?

Not surprisingly, a whole heap of bacteria. From a measly 60 volunteers, they managed to:

  • collect 2,368 bacteria species
  • of that, over 50% may not yet be known to science
  • the average person had 67 species, the ‘cleanest’ had 29 and the ‘dirtiest’ 107

…and what about the cartoon? Well, one of the volunteers was found to have bacteria only found in the soils of Japan (they had never visited Japan before). Another volunteer had bacteria typically only found in ice caps (must have a cold innie).

Gosh, I love scientists….Must be why I ‘married’ one.

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