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So I'm watching the 1976 "the boy in the plastic bubble" and it got me thinking.. there is a scene where he says hje doesnt take showers and doesnt smell because there are no germs...
So if people who are in sterile tooms all their life are truely germ free... that must mean all sorts of things... no BO, you never smell, do you even need to brush your teeth, you wouldnt get plaque or anything if there are no germs to consume the food on your teeth... Does it also mean they have no gut bacteria..
and aside from all those dise effects, which im curious about... how do you even steralize a human in the first place, even if they are born that way and go in from birth, surely your born with bacteria on you.. how do you steralize a human and if you cant how do they not die from this...
@freemo Yeah, I've long had some questions about this myself. I remember that movie when it came out.
Our digestive system is entirely dependent on the microbes that live in our gut. Our mouth and stomach add enzymes and acid, and mix it up to get the process moving. But the heavy lifting is done by our gut microbiome. We can't survive without it. So I've always been puzzled about the sterile environment thing. Maybe they're not counting gut bacteria as pathogens?
I'm an engineer. Maybe the answer is obvious to a microbiologist.
@shuttersparks it doesnt add up to me because I know that gut bacteria, out of blaance, can become dangerous (though that is rare)... so I dunno.
