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Losing Weight

Can A Thin Person’s Gut Make You Lose Weight?

Can A Thin Person’s Gut Make You Lose Weight?

  • September 6, 2013 8:31 pm
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Could what is living in your gut make a difference for your weight? If we believe recent research, obese people may need help from a thin person’s intestine.

A Different Kind Of Transplant

To find out if our gut bacteria play a role in weight management, you certainly have to get at those bacteria. Which means taking faeces samples and would put me right out of this line of furthering mankind’s knowledge. I have no trouble with blood and bones, but smells always get to me. Faster than anything else.

Braver souls now went down that exact road and took stool samples from four pairs of female twins, where one was obese, the other of normal weight. These samples were then injected into special mice having no gut bacteria of their own and changes to the mice’s body weight recorded.

The mice that got the samples from the thin women stayed slim, those that got the obese samples put on quite a bit of fat. The reason apparently is a special type of microbes called “bacteroides” of whom normal weight women have more.

Getting Slimmer, But Only On Low-Fat

In a follow-up experiment, both groups of mice were put into the same cage and allowed to mingle.  As mice have the tendency to eat each others droppings, this not only led to them having a more interesting social life, but also a mixing of gut bacteria between the slim and fat ones. After ten days of this microbe trading, the obese ones had become leaner.

However, this only happened if they were fed a high fiber / low fat diet. On a high fat / low fiber diet, the obese mice didn’t benefit from having more bacteroides. In the latter scenario, the gut climate apparently wasn’t very favorable for them.

Was Atkins Wrong?

In the future we may be able to buy pills with “slimming bacteria,” but a lot of good that will do us if it only works on the right diet. If we ate a high fiber / low fat diet we probably also wouldn’t need to lose weight in the first place.

At the moment a more interesting question is what this means for the Atkins and other low carb diets. Have people following those unwittingly killed the gut bacteria that could have benefitted them?

Picture courtesy of Sandra and Colin Rose.

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  1. Dr. J says:
    September 8, 2013 at 7:30 pm

    From what I’ve read on bacteria and obesity, if you eat a healthy diet with plenty of fruits and especially vegetables, you will not have the fat causing bacteria. Lousy food leads to lousy bugs!

    For a long time now I’ve believed that there are many medical problems, but only a few behaviors that will improve our health. I think you know what they are 🙂

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    • evilcyber says:
      September 9, 2013 at 1:10 pm

      Yup, when it comes down to it, they are rather simple 🙂

      Reply
  2. Jess says:
    September 9, 2013 at 12:53 am

    Really interesting. I was going to say I suspect what Dr J just said that eating a healthy diet probably encourages or leads or healthy bacteria and vice versa.

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    • evilcyber says:
      September 9, 2013 at 1:11 pm

      I think that is possible. Hopefully they’ll do further research into this direction, as it is quite interesting.

      Reply
  3. GiGi Eats Celebrities says:
    September 10, 2013 at 5:14 am

    Ah ha ha ha ha! Oh my, I am imagining someone telling me not to flush in a public bathroom. Okay, gross. Not okay. This is just pure desperation and I truly hope people who are looking to lose weigh just adopt a healthy approach to living! PLEASEEE!!

    Reply
    • evilcyber says:
      September 10, 2013 at 8:25 pm

      You have a very active fantasy 🙂

      Reply

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