Three-quarters of severely obese patients had unhealthy, not very diverse gut microbes (low microbial gene diversity).

This unbalance was associated with a greater tendency to have a high-fat mass in the trunk of the body and an increased likelihood of having type 2 diabetes, hypertension, or more severe versions of these comorbidities.

According to the researchers, more work is needed to determine "whether specific interventions (specialized diets, prebiotics/probiotics, or gut microbiota [fecal] transfers) may be useful to consider prior, or post, bariatric surgery in severely obese individuals."

"This is "an exciting field" of research… one day we'll probably have the perfect combination of gut organisms in a fecal pill form.”--Samer G. Mattar, MD, president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/899158

I love these forums: where else would you get bugs, poo trandplants, insect eating and discussions of grilling salmon in the same conversation!

Imma look at the gut stuff too. Find me some fermented stuff. Question about kefir I'm told it contains alcohol and I'm abstinent from that for very good reasons. Would kefir wake up my booze monster? Is really rather not, you see!!! But I would like to try some new foods.

I've had kefir, and it reminded me not even one little bit of drinking alcohol. It's like really tangy, thin yogurt.

If you're worried, you could just have yogurt. Chobani has a pretty good mix of happy yogurt bugs in it. (And Light 'n Fit is absolute junk, probiotically speaking. They don't list what strains they include, which makes me suspect they don't really include any.)

Edited August 15, 20187 yr by CrankyMagpie

Not sure what live yoghurt in UK is good. Guessing that stuff is American. I have some alforex probiotics but would rather eat my bugs ???

On 7/20/2018 at 4:06 AM, GreenTealael said:

I love the idea of a fecal transplant... But only for married people. Imagine the vows.

My $h!t will become your $h!t / Your $h!t will forever and always be my $h!t

Lol

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OMG!!! Totally laughed out loud! Made my week

On 8/5/2018 at 11:44 PM, Missouri-Lee's Summit said:

@IveGotThePower If you're serious, please let me know how they tasted, how much they cost, etc. Millions, probably billions of people around the world rely on insects as a major source of Protein.

Yes I am serious, and I'll let you know for sure. Just need to find them. Probably doing ground crickets and will try to add it to something or make crackers out of those tasty little buggers