The microbes that live in your body might be influencing your behavior.

Human behavior is something every industry wants to understand and even predict. How human behavior affects space usage, marketing, buying behavior? How do different circumstances affect the change in that behavior?

Human behavior is studied by the social sciences, which include psychology, sociology, economics, and anthropology. But right now there is a new addition to those sciences. The microbiology.

Anytime you touch a grimy handrail in the subway station or walk barefoot through the sand on a beach, you might be tempted to think that the skin we use to touch and feel is the largest interface with our surroundings. But you would be wrong; our guts are much bigger.

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