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regular_modern_girl t1_it744li wrote

Reply to comment by orbital_narwhal in Why does alcohol kill bacteria, but not the cells that our bodies are composed of? by Chairman_Mittens

The very paper they posted a link to above (as well as the one mentioned in the Nature article I posted, because they both say the same thing) makes it pretty clear that bacteria wins neither. There are about the same number of bacterial cells as human cells in an average human body, and they make up only around 0.2 kg of a human body’s mass.

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