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Antibiotic Answer IN your body actually. Your digestive tract contains many millions of germs, most of which are symbiotic - they help you digest your food.

Some species such as fleas have evolved such a useful symbiosis with their bacteria that the bacteria digests 100% of their food and their actual intestines de-evolved and disappeared.

The reason a tree can take hundreds or thousands of years to decompose but animals decompose very quickly is that the bacteria in our digestive tracts rapidly breaks down our bodies' tissues. In some cases bodies can be preserved for hundreds of years because the person was ill or fasted for a long time before dying, killing off the bacteria and thus preserving their bodies. This phenomena has been attributed to everything from their virtue magically sustaining them (Catholicism) to evidence of vampirism.

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