![]() ![]() Thee roles can be positive: beneficial bacteria colonize babies’ guts, and infant immune systems mature after exposure to environmental microbes.īut unfortunately, many can lead to infection. Humans evolved in a microbial world, so it’s no surprise that these “germs” play an important role in every person’s life. A woman, her baby, and the microbes living within each of them are holistically a single complex system: the Mother-Infant-Microbe Interactome, or MIMI. This physical connectedness reminds me of early motherhood and (naturally) of microbes. Living organisms and non-living materials function together as one self-sustaining body. In ecology, Gaia is the concept that Earth is one big interconnected system.
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