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Microbiomes Matter

April 28, 2025
Microbiomes Matter

How is the health of our soil and our bodies intertwined? What is the link between soil health and human health and how can understanding microbiomes explain this connection? How is the industrial food system playing a role in their degradation?

Microorganisms are not cuddly, or furry, or iconic. In fact many are reviled. But, we have always lived shoulder to shoulder with the tiniest creatures on Earth. Communities of microorganisms—microbiomes—colonize the surface and crevice of every life form. They live in our mouth, on our skin, and within our gut. They dwell in every soil on the planet. Bacteria even swath and coat the green bodies of our crops inside and out. This is shocking—and necessary. Our well-being, it turns out, depends on the presence of the microbial world, not its absence.

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