Gut Bacteria In Slim People Extract More Nutrients

Beeftopia writes "Researchers discovered that inserting gut bacteria from obese people into mice without gut bacteria led to the mice becoming obese. Gut bacteria from slim people inserted into the same mice did not lead to mouse obesity. The researchers concluded (abstract) that gut bacteria from the slim people were more efficient at extracting nutrients from food than those of the obese."

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Re:My new motto

[MyLongNickName]

You might wat to brush up on the reading skills. Skinny people have the more efficient bacteria.

Conclusion Makes No Sense

[Anonymous Coward]

So the mice became obese after being injected with gut bacteria from obese people. But the mice that were injected with gut bacteria from non-obese people did not. Or put another way, before the injection the mice were not obese, and after the injection the mice were still not obese. Since those mice experienced no change whatsoever, it makes no sense to conclude that the non-obese bacteria is more efficient at extracting nutrients. If that was the reason for the change, shouldn't there be some difference after the injection of the non-obese bacteria?

Re:FIAF.

[TechyImmigrant]

Check his citations. They're proper peer reviewed papers. His conclusions make sense and fit the data.

Re:Oh look the d word

[Anonymous Coward]

PH of a very acidic soda = 2.522, PH of stomach acid = 1.35

Don't blame the soda for having an acidic stomach.

Re:FIAF.

[RMingin]

Gut bacteria feed themselves, not you.

More efficient or effective gut bacteria eat your lunch before you can.

While in our overfed society, having hyperactive gut bacteria keeping you thin would be good, fatties would be laughing in a major disaster, since they'd get to enjoy more of that roadkill dinner they scavenged, and they'd have longer reserves for the initial disaster and the ensuing survival training course.

Now if we could just toggle between two sets of bacteria, we'd have a pretty ideal setup!