Not sure how much gut bacteria will help with weight loss, but it does seem to go the other way. One of my favorite papers in the field in the last couple year

Not sure how much gut bacteria will help with weight loss, but it does seem to go the other way. One of my favorite papers in the field in the last couple years shows a potential causal relationship between obesity and gut biomes by using artificial sweetener and a fecal transplant in mice. Paywalled version in nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature13793.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu... Unpaywalled version after googling: http://www.drperlmutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Artificial-Sweeteners.pdf http://www.drperlmutter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Artif...