irelephant@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAlmost all of you was food at one point.message-squaremessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down18
arrow-up1107arrow-down1message-squareAlmost all of you was food at one point.irelephant@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square30linkfedilink
minus-squarepruwyben@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up33·1 year agoPart of you is oxygen you inhaled.
minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoMost of that oxygen has been around I would think, but I guess some atoms would’ve come from recent micrometeorites or whatever.
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoI guess, some bacteria might have made it into your body in other ways, but might still be considered part of you in the wider sense…?
minus-squareKoboldCoterie@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoPlus there’s all those microplastics mixed in there.
minus-squareGodort@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoThose were also arguably food at some point
minus-squareMidnight Wolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoI’ll take a #1 2 liter coke bottle and a uhhhhhh mini tray table crunch mmmm
minus-squareZenith@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoThere’s more life in your gut than cells in your whole body
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoAh yeah, my comment was caveated as such, because I assumed those bacteria to have mostly gotten there via food. Then again, no idea if any even survive going through the stomach acid…
What do you mean “almost”?
Part of you is oxygen you inhaled.
Most of that oxygen has been around I would think, but I guess some atoms would’ve come from recent micrometeorites or whatever.
I guess, some bacteria might have made it into your body in other ways, but might still be considered part of you in the wider sense…?
Plus there’s all those microplastics mixed in there.
Those were also arguably food at some point
I’ll take a #1 2 liter coke bottle and a uhhhhhh mini tray table
crunch mmmm
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There’s more life in your gut than cells in your whole body
Ah yeah, my comment was caveated as such, because I assumed those bacteria to have mostly gotten there via food. Then again, no idea if any even survive going through the stomach acid…
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