Stop bugging me

A friend e-mails this question: "I read somewhere that microbes outnumber cells in the body 10 to 1. Is that true? Are we just skins filled with & crawling with bugs?" Find the answer, friend, in this week's Musing, an updated reprise from a Globe column of long ago. I don't promise that it will make you happy.

Click to enlarge Anne's Sunday pic.