Do gut bacteria affect weight?
More than 4 million people worldwide die from overweight and obesity. In Thailand.
Adults aged 19 and over were obese or had a body mass index of 25 kg/m2 or higher, reaching 45.6 percent in 2020, increasing to 46.2 percent in 2021 and 46.6 percent in 2022 (data from the Ministry of Public Health’s health data warehouse, HDC). It can be seen that the number of people who are sick is increasing every year. The main causes of obesity, as everyone knows, are unhealthy eating habits, lifestyles, or physical inactivity.
Nowadays, obesity can be caused by many reasons, including bacteria in the intestines.
Because our body has trillions of bacteria, and each type of bacteria is different. Some bacteria in the intestines are beneficial to the body, while others are harmful to the body. These bacteria have important roles for our health, such as สมัคร ufabet กับเรา รับโบนัสทันที stimulating the immune system, synthesizing nutrients that the body needs, and helping with digestion and absorption of nutrients, which may be another factor that affects our weight.
Gordon et al.’s research, publishe in September 2013 in the journal Science, use mice raised in a germ-free environment and injected their gut bacteria from obese and lean twins. The mice were then fed the same diet. The mice fed the same type of bacteria had more weight and fat than the mice fed the bacteria from the lean. The diversity of bacteria in the mice fed the bacteria from the obese also decreased. The experiment was repeat. This time moving the mice to the same cage. After the bacteria were given. The mice remained lean, indicating that there had an exchange of bacteria, likely from eating the feces of the mice fed the bacteria from the lean. To further prove this, the researchers transferred 54 strains of bacteria from the lean mice to mice prone to obesity. The obese mice regained their weight and gained a healthy weight. Thus, it is clear that gut bacteria are related to obesity.