These must be some amazing bacteria. We should figure out what mechanism they use to produce more energy than possible from the materials provided.
Oh, you mean that you still have to force feed your gut the cupcakes? The bacteria aren’t some type of miraculous machine that break our understanding of the laws of nature? They don’t produce fat from nothing?
Then I guess it’s still my fault that I’m a fatass.
Don't give up so quickly. We can still blame our parents, fast food, and global warming.
In my opinion, all bacteria are “amazing”.
This might explain why some surgeries on the gut, though not intending to, cause serious weight loss in patients. This does not happen to all (sorry!) but some doctors were looking into the idea that the intestinal track had some sort of “back door” connection to the brain that regulated hunger and ability to gain nutrition from food taken into the system. As if the gut had it’s OWN brain that regulated it. It’s like you control your breathing while you are at rest, it’s no big deal. You run up six flights of stairs and you are most likely no longer able to control your breathing, your body COMMANDS you to take in more breaths to meet your body’s needs. Likewise with the gut, it starts to tell you that you NEED more intake (perhaps spurred on by that amazing bacteria) and you respond with hunger for specific foods that satisfy that need, and the bacteria!
Gods creation is truly a wondrous and miraculous thing.
And there's no force-feeding required, the bugs drive your appetite. You can't be happy unless the bugs are happy, so you eat. If you try to starve the bugs, you starve yourself too.