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Actually living on Mars might be one of the only ways to successfully live without any microbes, because a huge part of the gut microbiota is needed to train yo
by pazimzadeh 7y ago
Actually living on Mars might be one of the only ways to successfully live without any microbes, because a huge part of the gut microbiota is needed to train your immune responses to other microbes. But if there are no other microbes around you'd be ok for a while, but would probably develop autoimmunity or have other immune problems eventually.
People with SCID have to live in a filtered air bubble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_combined_immunodeficiency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_combined_immunodeficien...) so it's possible, but if I remember correctly there are side effects. Mars is kind of a similar lifeless bubble though.