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In a Sense, cats did actually. Not through direct contact, but by getting rid of mice and rats that infiltrate food storage.
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Cat’s will also literally try to clean you as well!
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Plenty of bacteria lives in your guts feeding on your food and generating useful by-products.
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And plenty live on your skin, causing no harm but making it nearly impossible for dangerous bacteria to thrive.
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How do you know they didn't? When was the last time you just let bugs spend time on you?
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There are more mites specialized to live on your eyebrows skin than many like to think about. =3
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Not just mites, we’re absolutely covered and full of commensal organisms. What’s really interesting is how specialized these organisms have become, like the difference between body and head lice. We have critters socialized to just our eyebrows and eyelashes, others only live in apocrine sweat glands, etc.

Even before you get to the literal kilograms of bacteria, fungi and other fauna in our guts we’re a whole world unto ourselves.

We just don’t usually notice.

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If you think about the most commonly accepted history of eukaryotic life, it’s been this way from the beginning! Our cells themselves are bags of specialized microorganisms that changed and became integral to each other’s existence over time.
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There are many Garra rufa subspecies that were the source of compounds used in treating modern autoimmune and skin disorders.

The fishes histories go back thousands of years. As a species it is super interesting... some evolved in hot-spring conditions that would simply cook most other animals. =3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_garra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLWkojAnyH0

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Can we squint and say the gut microbiome is kind of like this?
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Lol!

Because there hasn’t been enough time and the ecological niche is non existent… ?

However… upon further inspection, one could argue that the micro biome is full of beneficial micro organisms that have evolved to fill this niche…

[1] Staphylococcus epidermidis

This is one of the most abundant and beneficial bacteria on human skin. It produces antimicrobial peptides and metabolites that inhibit the growth of pathogenic bacteria.

[2] Cutibacterium acnes

Despite its association with acne, this bacterium actually plays an important role in skin health by producing propionic acid, which helps maintain skin pH and prevents overgrowth of harmful organisms.

[3] Corynebacterium species

Various corynebacteria colonize the skin and produce lipases and other enzymes that help break down sebum (skin oils) and maintain healthy skin conditions.

[4] Malassezia species

These yeasts are abundant on skin and help regulate the skin microbiome, though they can sometimes cause issues in excess.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcus_epidermidis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutibacterium_acnes

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corynebacterium

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malassezia

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