• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    Bacteria multiply crazy fast… as long as the food source was uninterrupted I’d almost guarantee you most people’s microbiome would be fully recovered in just a few hours and they’d not even notice.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah 50% loss isn’t servere at all for gut biome loss. If you’ve ever been on antibiotics you’ve likely experienced that or worse.

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    11 months ago

    If we’re playing by those rules, then only 50% of every human would die, because we’re made of smaller living organisms

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      11 months ago

      100% of the cells of the 50% of people that die, would die.
      100% of the cells of the 50% of people that live, would live.
      Overall, 50% of human cells still die