1. Are Gut Microbes Responsible for Post-dieting Weight Rebound?
- Author
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Julien Chilloux, Marc-Emmanuel Dumas, and Commission of the European Communities
- Subjects
0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Diet, Reducing ,Physiology ,Biology ,Body weight ,Endocrinology & Metabolism ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Weight loss ,Internal medicine ,Weight Loss ,1101 Medical Biochemistry And Metabolomics ,medicine ,Humans ,Microbiome ,Obesity ,Molecular Biology ,Body Weight ,0601 Biochemistry And Cell Biology ,Cell Biology ,medicine.disease ,Diet reducing ,030104 developmental biology ,Endocrinology ,medicine.symptom ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Dieting - Abstract
One of the dieting conundrums in the age of the obesity epidemic is the cycle of weight loss and regain known as the "yo-yo effect." Thaiss et al. (2016) demonstrate that the microbiome plays a key role in this phenomenon and that simple dietary supplementations can reset the weight-rebound clock.
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- 2017