{"id":1490,"date":"2010-03-05T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2010-03-05T10:24:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:24:11","slug":"gas-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/05\/gas-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em>BBC News<\/em>  &#8211; &#8220;The human gut holds microbes containing millions of genes, say scientists. In fact, there are more genes in the flora in the intestinal system than the rest of our bodies.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8547454.stm\">According to Professor Jeroen Raes, &#8220;Basically, we are a walking bacterial colony.&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And, as some have posited, <em>Homo erectus asphaltus<\/em> may, in fact, have evolved simply to help gut gas find a bigger field of expression. &#8220;We have about 100 times more microbial genes than human genes in the body. We also have 10 times more bacterial cells in our body than human cells,&#8221; said the erudite professor Raes. <\/p>\n<p>Flatulence or bust!<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC News &#8211; &#8220;The human gut holds microbes containing millions of genes, say scientists. In fact, there are more genes in the flora in the intestinal system than the rest of our bodies.&#8221; According to Professor Jeroen Raes, &#8220;Basically, we are a walking bacterial colony.&#8221; And, as some have posited, Homo erectus asphaltus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}