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Re:Why do people put on differing amounts of weight? by windexh8er on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @09:15AM (#10973439)
I've commented a bunch of time on gut microbiome before and I'll say it again here who may have not caught it. If this article is interesting check out "The Good Gut" by Justin and Erica Sonnenburg, PhD. I've been experimenting with an ad hoc restorative process through ideas in the book and reading/research around a myriad of pro/prebiotics + diet change.

For me the whole subject adds a lot of weight to the idea of "skinny fat" vs "fat". I'm glad we're in an age of companies like WellnessFX where I can objectively see the positive changes made by changes to a lifestyle... But, again, I can't stress enough how much great information and studies that have been broken down is in the book. No affiliation, but it's very powerful knowledge.

$0.02.

edit: "we're not in" to "we're in", whoops

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Re:Why do people put on differing amounts of weight? by OldSchoolJohnny on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @12:21PM (#10974504)
I am in agreement about the microbiome and it's importance but I found the good gut to be a terrible book full of wild speculation and little facts to back them up. Many sections started with a few thin facts then the authors made jumps that didn't exactly connect to those facts in order to speculate as if that was a fact. I hope there is a better book out there on this topic or one coming soon.
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Re:Why do people put on differing amounts of weight? by windexh8er on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @04:55PM (#10976437)
Interesting. Do you have any specific examples you can remember? I read the book from the perspective that it wasn't verbatim research results, but example based results from their research. I found the connections between the test and result generally existed, although I would say the book got a bit muddy on reuse of a few key topic areas. It's definitely a dry book - it took me a while to get through as it didn't always hold my interest.

That being said I agree that I hope there's more to come.

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