Title: Archaea: Hot springs, the Dead Sea, and your intestines | The Undoctored Blog
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Archaea: Hot springs, the Dead Sea, and your intestines
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Archaea: Hot springs, the Dead Sea, and your intestines
July 20, 2019 By Dr. William Davis
It’s a peculiar situation. Bacteria are obviously primitive organisms. They are ubiquitous in the human body, occupying virtually every nook and cranny, crack and crevice. But there’s another class of microorganisms that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract of most humans that, if their proliferation goes unchecked, can wreak havoc: Archaea. Archaea are fascinating. Evolutionarily, Archaea pre-date bacteria and lack such features as having a cell nucleus. Archaea are sometimes called “extremophiles,” as they have evolved the ability to survive in extreme environments, such as the boiling water temperatures of hot springs (“thermophiles”) or the toxic levels of salt in the Dead Sea (“halophiles”).