Fat Digesting Gut Bacteria

(Shawn) #1

Interesting article. I wonder if the amount of bacteria that digest fat being low when someone starts a keto diet has anything to do with the “keto flu” most people experience.

(Rob) #2

Interesting but not sure I’m buying it yet. It’s exactly the kind of junk adjacent science that will get headlines (and thus academic funding) and will be used to sell metric shit-tons of yogurt to fatties to attempt to make up for their terrible diet.

I’m sure there is something there since metabolically healthy people seem to be able to eat excess fat and not store it (probably not even digest it) and probably pass it straight through. Is that a normal healthy metabolism, magic bacteria or both? If you put the magic bugs in a metabolically unhealthy person do you get s benefit?

(Jay AM) #3

That’s the idea behind a fecal transplant.

(Rob) #4

True, true. FMT is both weird and fascinating. The gut is undeniably the next frontier of medical breakthrough… however, I still think this particular thing sounds more like exogenous ketones than a C.Diff killer. I would be happy to be proved wrong. I might even eat yogurt :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

(Jay AM) #5

Well, just like current gut beasties, they are not as easy to get and keep alive from outside the body and they will die if fed wrong or from other bacteria. It’s like we’re playing an ecosystem simulation game for something we can’t see and don’t know enough about.

Basically, someone will sell special bacteria in a bottle for magic weight loss and people will buy it. They will swear by that expensive pill even as they kill off their new pets with a Krispy Kreme donut. If there is money to be made, someone will find the way to make it. Keto activia anyone? Now with only 25g net carbs!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #6

Gut bacteria seem to be the new hit diet solution these days. Now, if only we could put them in a pill!

God forbid we should all just eat healthy food. . . .

(Chris) #7

Oh come on, the next frontier is obviously finding a new NSAID they can charge $1000 per pill for otc.

(Rob) #8

Sorry, I should have said “the next REAL frontier in ACTUALLY improving health is…” :flushed:

It’s like the old tropes about getting 3 wishes… if you are not very very very specific you end up with a one foot tall gnome who can play the piano!! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #9

Gotta keep em fed.

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #10

I should mention, I think they’d have a market for deodorized thin person poop capsules as a consumer fecal transplant if they could get some results.