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From NewsMaxHealth | March 27, 2013
Is it possible to cure obesity without performing the guy bypass surgery (called Roux n Y bariatric bypass. The operation involves lessening the capacity of the stomach and bypassing the small intestine) but by transplating the trillions of microbes dwelling in the gut?
This is what the team at Massachussetts Gen Hospital and Harvard Medical School. This is how the operation proceeded. One did the usual Roux n Y bypass on a mouse. The mouse lost 29% of the weight. Then an incision was made on a second mouse but gut was reconnected the usual way but the gut microbes from the Roux n Y mouse was transferred to the second mouse. The second mouse lost weight too.
So the weight loss is not just anatomical but physiological caused by microbiota, according to Dr. Lee Kaplan of the Harvard Medical School - the senior author of the study
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