Good bacteria in the body not only to maintain balance. Bacteria that relieve diarrhea disorders in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) was also able to streamline the body. People who have this type of bacteria that live in the intestines, the body has the ability to process and convert the energy derived from fat diet change.
Meanwhile, people who are obese and unhealthy tend to maintain the microbes that can increase fat storage process. This is the factor of their excess body weight. The team of researchers from Arizona State University Biodesign Institute, University of Arizona and the Mayo Clinic in Arizona found that every person has a population of intestinal microbes are different.
Even after a person's gastric bypass surgery tend to have a microbe that is similar to those of normal weight. The findings have been reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The results obtained are still limited to early stage and could be one of the new guidance for doctors and patients to address the growing epidemic of obesity.
"This study shows that differences in the body of organisms may play some role at least in terms of losing weight," said Dr. John DiBaise, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic, as quoted in TIME. Dr Dibaise said the study allows to manipulate microbes in obese individuals in order to have a normal weight. The microbe is also potentially predict a person's susceptibility to obesity or being overweight.
"But to be thin does not mean a person should consume in excess of probiotic yoghurt. Due to the existing dominant strain in people with normal body weight is not the same as the strains of the microbes in yogurt," said Dr DiBaise.
In addition there has been no evidence to suggest that probiotic products can lose weight. A scientific study found that probiotics can only relieve diarrhea caused by antibiotics and reduce the risk of IBS.
