Did your gut microbes make you fat or thin?

AZYooper

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Posted 12/10/2013 5:57 PM (GMT 0)

Interesting. Maybe I should get a FT from a skinny relative?

www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-microbes-in-your-gut-may-be-making-you-fat-or-keeping-you-thin/2013/12/06/6f186da2-488b-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_story.html

quincy

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Posted 12/10/2013 7:52 PM (GMT 0)

Interesting....I've come by being thin from my father's side...ectomorphic body type. But, now that I'm aging...thicker around the middle seems to be the way that body type gains weight.

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MaxMilian

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Posted 12/10/2013 10:42 PM (GMT 0)

I have always been an ectomorph. I had fmts from an anonymous donor and still am an ectomorph. Not sure what body type my donor was.

But fmts are just administered in the colon. Doesnt nutrition absorption (there by determining your body type) occur in the small intestines?

I didnt read the article.

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