Coffee has nutritional benefits! Scientists in Duesseldorf, Germany, report,

Within the past 20 years or so, dozens of papers have been written regarding the human microbiome. Microbiota inhabit a variety of niches in the human body, with the gut being the primary location. Remarkably, “The human gut has the highest known cell densities of any microbial habitat on Earth.”¹ The number of microbiome cells number into the trillions for a single person.

In the mid-1800s, a mild Augustinian friar named Gregor Mendel crossbred pea plants and pioneered the beginnings of understanding inherited traits. Genetics has come a long way since then.

“These are, high, high, highly intelligent creatures,” said conservation biologist Reese Halter.¹