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Textbooks taught for decades that bacteria outnumber human cells 10 to 1 — a 1972 rough estimate cited without scrutiny. A 2016 Weizmann study found about 38 trillion gut microbes vs. 30 trillion human cells: 1.3 to 1, not 10 to 1. The number was inflated tenfold.
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