What's living in YOUR intestines???

Wecandothis
Wecandothis Posts: 1,083 Member
edited September 20 in Health and Weight Loss
This is not quite the right forum for this, but it is about healthy bodies...

At any rate - I just read this disturbing factoid:

"By body weight, each of us carries around nearly four pounds of intestinal microflora."

EW! Of course if it died we'd be in trouble. Still... that's a lot!

I'm not so sure I want to keep doing research into this stuff... :wink:

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  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    The cecum is a part of your bowl shaped like a little bowl, and some feces gets 'caught' there purposely to feed those intestinal bacteria. Bacteria have a bad rep, but you are correct that, without these microorganisms, we'd be in trouble--in the form of dead!
  • Fieldsy
    Fieldsy Posts: 1,105 Member
    I came into this thread with my reply of saying ****

    ha
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    "microflora"?

    Small flowers?

    :flowerforyou:
  • Wecandothis
    Wecandothis Posts: 1,083 Member
    The cecum is a part of your bowl shaped like a little bowl, and some feces gets 'caught' there purposely to feed those intestinal bacteria. Bacteria have a bad rep, but you are correct that, without these microorganisms, we'd be in trouble--in the form of dead!

    I wonder how mine like their new diet, because I've certainly changed the way that I eat...

    *snickers at Fieldsy then...*
  • Wecandothis
    Wecandothis Posts: 1,083 Member
    "microflora"?

    Small flowers?

    :flowerforyou:

    Oh... Lauryn - I like that mental picture so much better!
  • proctor0828
    proctor0828 Posts: 179
    "microflora"?

    Small flowers?

    :flowerforyou:
    HA, cute!
  • Fieldsy
    Fieldsy Posts: 1,105 Member
    so thats why when I toot it smells like roses :flowerforyou:
  • GTOgirl1969
    GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
    so thats why when I toot it smells like roses :flowerforyou:

    Now when someone farts, I can say they are perfuming the air.:laugh:
  • Fieldsy
    Fieldsy Posts: 1,105 Member
    I'm a crop duster
  • Wecandothis
    Wecandothis Posts: 1,083 Member
    I'm a crop duster
    Now when someone farts, I can say they are perfuming the air

    okay this is way too hilarious, in a very sophomoric kind of way. And I'm very Sophomoric! HAHAAH
  • TankLily
    TankLily Posts: 34
    :laugh: This has tickled my Microbiology Nerd Mind. :laugh:
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    I'm picturing this beautiful little turn in my guts with a field of pretty little Lego-looking flowers growing! :laugh:
  • stormieweather
    stormieweather Posts: 2,549 Member
    Ok Lauryn,

    That made me laugh out loud...at work!
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    Ok Lauryn,

    That made me laugh out loud...at work!

    HAPPY FRIDAY!!!! :flowerforyou: <
    haha, see my flowers? :laugh:
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    "microflora"?

    Small flowers?

    :flowerforyou:

    I know. That's what I thought. :laugh: :laugh:
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