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Why Use Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) for Adiposity / Obesity
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) is being studied as a way to test whether changing the gut microbial community can affect adiposity and metabolic health - not only body weight. This approach is based on the possibility that gut microbes influence how the body extracts and stores energy and regulates metabolism. Supporting this rationale, animal-transfer experiments found that microbiota from obese donors increased fat gain in germ-free mice compared with microbiota from lean donors (7, 8); these findings support the broader rationale…