Another piece of evidence that fatness is not all - or always, anyway - due to eating too much or not moving enough.
I blame the obesity epidemic on overuse of antibiotics. The antibiotics are ruining our internal gut flora and the ones that seem to survive best are those that make you fat.
Some of that overuse of antibiotics is from doctors and some from farm animals raised on antibiotics to increase their weight before slaughter.
Those fools. There are many studies that show that some bacteria and other microorganisms, independent of everything else, cause weight gain.
Obese people have as much as 1/3rd of their intestinal flora from the Enterobacter genus, strongly associated with weight gain. Instead of 30-40 major types of bacteria. So they are some of the worst people to get a fecal transplant from.
They likely also have a lot of inflammatory agents in their digestive tract, that can result in weight gain as well as cause other autoimmune problems.
so you live for years with a gut illness that causes you nausea, diahrea, loss of appetite, vomiting, then get a cure and you are finally able to eat and keep it down and properly absorb it....and despite excercise., you join the grown up crowd of getting fat. welcome to growing older.
Sounds like this might be a treatment option for the obese. Wipe out their native gut bacteria and replace it with bacteria from a skinny person.
So what we should do is put an ad on Cregg’s list looking for bacteria from a thin person? Is that what I’m reading here? I mean, these diets are killin me.
Or it could suggest that when your gut finally stops rebelling on you you’re going to retain a lot more of the calories you eat.
C.diff kills up to 43,000 people per year, a threat that is far greater than Ebola. It is a highly dangerous bacteria and very difficult to get over. There are just two drugs that will treat it and even then 20% of the those treated will have recurrence which then can become a life threatening issue. It is a major medical problem in hospitals and healthcare facilities. It is contracted primarily through anti-biotic use but is spreading rapidly by person to person contact.
Juicy bit of information here.
I wonder if baby poop would be healthiest or whether you should select a very healthy-looking older person.
FYI: 50% of the dry weight of feces is bacteria.
Amazing...