{"id":77677,"date":"2018-04-10T09:02:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T16:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/more-than-half-your-body-is-not-human"},"modified":"2018-04-10T09:02:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T16:02:41","slug":"more-than-half-your-body-is-not-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/more-than-half-your-body-is-not-human","title":{"rendered":"More than half your body is not human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-than-half-your-body-is-not-human.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than half of your body is not human, say scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Human cells make up only 43% of the body\u2019s total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding this hidden half of ourselves \u2014 our microbiome \u2014 is rapidly transforming understanding of diseases from allergy to Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-43674270\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-43674270<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of your body is not human, say scientists. Human cells make up only 43% of the body\u2019s total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. Understanding this hidden half of ourselves \u2014 our microbiome \u2014 is rapidly transforming understanding of diseases from allergy to Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}