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Researchers at Harvard University, in collaboration with researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, have found that the microbes in the gut of mice change a lot after they have gastric bypass surgery. These researchers have taken these microbes out of the gastric bypass mice and placed them in the guts of mice who have not had gastric bypass surgery. The mice without bypass surgery lost 20% of the weight that the mice with bypass surgery lost, without even having a surgery.
The mice were not even put on a high fat diet before they were tested. If the mice had been put on a high fat diet before the microbes were put in, there may have been a greater percentage of weight loss. They do not yet know what mechanical changes happened to the microbes to make the high metabolism rate that they cause but they are now researching into it. Knowing this would give doctors a whole new way of dealing with patients who can't have or don't want surgery to help with obesity.
Although it works in mice, it may still be some time before they are able to replicate it in humans. But this will not be a quick fix for losing 10 pounds before beach season. This procedure would be fore those who are dangerously obese.
Before gastric bypass your gut is full of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes but after the surgery it is full of Proteobacteria and low levels of Firmicutes. The drastic change in bacterial communities in the gut is where the major change in weight stems from. From all of the research they are doing they are finding that weight is more complicated than just eating right and exercising.
I chose this article because I know someone who recently passed away from obesity and this is great news for future obese people.
Researchers at Harvard University, in collaboration with researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, have found that the microbes in the gut of mice change a lot after they have gastric bypass surgery. These researchers have taken these microbes out of the gastric bypass mice and placed them in the guts of mice who have not had gastric bypass surgery. The mice without bypass surgery lost 20% of the weight that the mice with bypass surgery lost, without even having a surgery.
The mice were not even put on a high fat diet before they were tested. If the mice had been put on a high fat diet before the microbes were put in, there may have been a greater percentage of weight loss. They do not yet know what mechanical changes happened to the microbes to make the high metabolism rate that they cause but they are now researching into it. Knowing this would give doctors a whole new way of dealing with patients who can't have or don't want surgery to help with obesity.
Although it works in mice, it may still be some time before they are able to replicate it in humans. But this will not be a quick fix for losing 10 pounds before beach season. This procedure would be fore those who are dangerously obese.
Before gastric bypass your gut is full of Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes but after the surgery it is full of Proteobacteria and low levels of Firmicutes. The drastic change in bacterial communities in the gut is where the major change in weight stems from. From all of the research they are doing they are finding that weight is more complicated than just eating right and exercising.
I chose this article because I know someone who recently passed away from obesity and this is great news for future obese people.
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