Can Colon Cleansing help? 

Could there really be a fat causing microbe in our intestines keeping us over weight? Scientist claim their studies have proven we can actually catch these microbes and start to have a weight issue. This Study claims that  normal, healthy weight people do not have high levels of this microbe in their gut. The same study claims the over weight people tested did. Herbalife has a product that helps clean the tiny microscopic hair like follicles located in the gut call villi, Cell Activator has been one of the products in the Herbalife Distributors arsenal for stubborn weight loss for years. 

What is in our intestines

Abstract

Background: 

There are trillions of microbes living in the human gut, helping to break down foods that would otherwise be indigestible. Of these microbes, there are 2 groups of beneficial bacteria that dominate the human gut: the Bacteroidetes and the Fornicates. In one study, transplantation of the gut microbial from normal mice into germ-free recipients increased their body fat without any increase in food consumption, a result that raised the possibility that the composition of the microbial community in the gut affects the amount of energy extracted from the diet. It has also been shown that mice that are genetically obese have 50% fewer Bactericides, and correspondingly more Fornicates, than their lean siblings do. The relationship between gut microbial ecology and body fat in humans was investigated.

Methods: 

Twelve obese persons were randomly assigned to either a fat-restricted or a carbohydrate-restricted low-calorie diet. The composition of their gut microbial was monitored over the course of 1 year by sequencing 16S ribosomal RNA (Rena) genes from stool samples.

Results: 

The resulting data set of 18,348 bacterial 16S rRNA sequences revealed that 70% of the 4074 identified species-level phylogenetic types (phylotypes) were unique to each person. Despite the marked interpersonal differences in species-level diversity, members of the Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes divisions dominated the microbiota (92.6% of all 16S rRNA sequences). Before diet therapy, obese persons had fewer Bacteroidetes and more Firmicutes than did lean control subjects. Over time, the relative abundance of Bacteroidetes increased and the abundance of Firmicutes decreased, regardless of the type of diet. The change was division wide and was not due to blooms or extinctions of specific bacterial species.

Conclusions: 

The relative proportion of Bacteroidetes is decreased in obese persons in comparison with lean persons, and this proportion increased with weight loss on 2 types of low-calorie diets. These findings demonstrate that obesity has a microbial component, which may have potential therapeutic implications.