Category Archives: microbiota

What is microbial diversity anyway?

Posted on September 12, 2018 by

We hear about the diversity of our gut microbiota quite a lot nowadays. But what that actually means is often a little vague. Microbiotaologists calculate diversity by borrowing equations developed by those who have spent much longer studying the diversity … Continue reading →

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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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