Right from our childhood, we learn that bacteria and microbes aren’t really good for our health, obviously this is barring those good little being inside our stomach that help digest food, which we refer to as good bacteria. However, most bacteria and microbes are always on the hunt for ways to infect our bodies, and the only thing between them and our ill health is the immunity system – a highly robust defensive mechanism in our own bodies that protects us from getting sick day in and day out. If you’ve never been sick for years, it doesn’t mean that you don’t get in touch with bacteria and microbes as researchers have pointed out several weird facts about these tiny little organisms and the ways we all remain in regular contact with them, in our homes, our cars, offices, and even in our beds.
\We’re more bacteria than human:
Scientists have always stated that human life and perhaps all other forms of life came to earth after some bacterial cells adapted to the conditions on the planet and thrived to become the life as we all know it today. You’re highly mistaken if you believe that humans are an entirely different species.
Researchers have pointed out that the human body is teeming with these little microbes and according to facts the human body has 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells, making you more a bacteria than human. However, another weird fact here is that every human being is born without any bacteria and we all acquire them within the first few years of our life, starting from the time we passed through our mothers’ birth canal. Moreover, another research about the amount of bacteria in our bodies states that 10 percent of the human dry weight belongs to the weight of the bacteria we have in us.
Your car is nothing less than a heaven for bacteria:
We all love our cars and do everything we can to keep in smelling fresh and looking clean. However, all that looks clean isn’t always clean under the microscope, and your car is no different. Researchers have pointed out that the steering wheel of your car can have nine to 10 times more bacteria and other microbes than can be found on the seat of a public toilet. This research further states that, while on a public toilet set there are around 80 bacteria per square inch, the density on the steering wheel of your car has somewhere around 700 of these harmful little bugs in the same area.
This high number of bacteria on your car’s steering wheel is simply because you usually don’t drive back home without popping in a burger or two while on the wheel. Moreover, those who don’t dine inside their vehicles, have no cleaner cars either as this case your car’s gear shift will be having an average of 356 germs per square centimeter.
No, you’re not safe in your bed either:
We usually change the bedding every evening before we go to bed, and this means we change the pillow cover, the bed sheet and the cover of the blanket. Although you do get rid of a lot of bacteria that way, there are still billions of these organisms inside the mattress, pillow cushion and the blanket that keeps you warm.
While you’re sleeping, chances are bright that you inhale millions of bacteria each night and have billions more lurking all over your body. The reason why you don’t wake up sick each morning is that your immunity system doesn’t sleep and continues to ward off these little disease causing microbes throughout the night.
Summary:
We all usually want to keep as much distance from disease causing bacteria as is possible. However, researchers show that we’re always surrounded by bacteria, no matter how clean our bodies are or how great our homes and car look.