About half of your body is bacteria
- jeevika.M
- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min read
That’s right. A 2014 study estimates that the human body consists of 39 trillion bacteria and 30 trillion human cells. In the past, researchers thought we were more bacteria than human with a ratio of 10:1. While this new calculation is probably closer

to the true numbers, it’s not a hard fact.