What keeps the microbiota in our gut from growing infinitely and taking over our body?
In: Biology
I mean, they “grow infinitely”, keep feeding on the nutrients coming down through the intestines, and they multiply. And periodically your large intestine extracts the water and “compacts” everything, and then you poop the microbiota out. That’s what poop is.
They are too big to pass through the intestinal wall into your blood, and any that do are killed by the immune cells in your blood.
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