Probiotics for Weight Loss
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 12 March 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Gut microbiota is the newest health craze. Problems with the good bacteria in the intestines have been correlated with everything from obesity to cardiovascular disease. However,correlation does not mean causation, and certainly does not mean we have successful treatments. So what about microbiota and weight gain? Can we manipulate the microbiota with probiotics or prebiotics to achieve weight loss? The answers might surprise you.
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| 0:59.8 | Hi, this is Dr. Rucho, and I wanted to take a minute to talk about a recent study that looked at the association or the efficacy of probiotics as a treatment for obesity, |
| 1:10.7 | and then maybe go on a little bit of a rant |
| 1:12.3 | regarding the microbiota and its implications for potentially being a therapy for weight loss. |
| 1:18.9 | So the paper I wanted to cover briefly here is entitled The Development of Probiotic Treatment in Obesity, |
| 1:26.8 | a review. So it's a review paper from 2014 looking at the potential therapy of probiotics for weight loss. |
| 1:36.3 | And if you look at the study, you'll see some exciting language or some encouraging language being used by the researchers. Things like |
| 1:45.1 | this probiotic was successful at inducing weight loss or this probiotic yielded reduction in body |
| 1:53.5 | fat or what have you. And that could make someone excited reading that. But if you go and you |
| 1:59.5 | pull each one of these papers individually, you see, |
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