Your Mouth Is A Cave For Microbes

Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel. 🎉 Get up to 60% off in your subscription ➡️ Here: go.babbel.com/t?bsc=1200m60-youtube-journeytothemi… You may not want to think about it this way, but your mouth is really just one giant, wet cave for microbes. From the perspective of bacteria, your mouth is not a tool. It is a home. It is a place that provides shelter and food, but it is also a place that can pose many threats. And the interplay between our mouths and the microbes that take up residence within them ends up, inevitably, affecting our own health. Shop The Microcosmos: www.microcosmos.store Follow Journey to the Microcosmos: Twitter: twitter.com/journeytomicro Facebook: www.facebook.com/JourneyToMicro Support the Microcosmos: www.patreon.com/journeytomicro More from Jam’s Germs: Instagram: www.instagram.com/jam_and_germs YouTube:    / @jamsgerms   Hosted by Hank Green: Twitter: twitter.com/hankgreen YouTube: youtube.com/vlogbrothers Music by Andrew Huang: youtube.com/andrewhuang Journey to the Microcosmos is a Complexly production. Find out more at www.complexly.com/ Stock video from: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2… SOURCES: www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/394885 books.google.com/books?id=TS1b1UeAYXAC&printsec=fr… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11898270/ www.researchgate.net/publication/342089736_The_Inf… theconversation.com/how-did-people-clean-their-tee… www.researchgate.net/publication/342089736_The_Inf… bmcoralhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s… www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6215854/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6215854/

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