Category Archives: microbiota

Does bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from the gut cause obesity?

Posted on March 14, 2018 by

Does lipopolysaccharide (LPS), also known as endotoxin, cause obesity? Reasons to think it might (in mice at least) come from a high-profile paper published in the journal Diabetes in 2007 and titled “Metabolic Endotoxemia Initiates Obesity and Insulin Resistance” (cited … Continue reading →

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Graphic faecal transplants and obesity

Posted on February 13, 2018 by

The gut microbiota has been a popular area of research over the past few years and few aspects of this research have gained quite as much attention as the role of the gut microbiota in obesity. One of the studies that started … Continue reading →

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