The old line was that bacteria in your body outnumber human cells 10 to 1. What did a 2016 recount find for a typical adult?

The answer

Sender, Fuchs, and Milo put a 70 kg "reference man" at about 30 trillion human cells and 38 trillion bacteria, a ratio near 1.3:1. The famous 10:1 figure was a back-of-the-envelope leftover, not a measurement.

Correct answer: The numbers are roughly the same order, about 1.3 bacteria per human cell