{"id":179800,"date":"2024-01-04T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/chemical-produced-by-gut-microbes-seems-to-prevent-obesity-in-mice"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:22:38","slug":"chemical-produced-by-gut-microbes-seems-to-prevent-obesity-in-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/chemical-produced-by-gut-microbes-seems-to-prevent-obesity-in-mice","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Produced by Gut Microbes Seems to Prevent Obesity in Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chemical-produced-by-gut-microbes-seems-to-prevent-obesity-in-mice2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a good thing to know.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Microbes living in our guts ooze a substance that could help protect us against excessive weight gain, according to observations in mice.<\/p>\n<p>The bacteria-derived compound may explain why early exposure to antibiotics can play a role in childhood obesity, a condition which is <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12916-019-1449-8\">rising globally<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt University biochemist Catherine Shelton and colleagues discovered this by giving young mice a high or low fat diet, with or without exposure to antibiotics. Mice only given penicillin antibiotics did not gain weight, but those also on a high fat diet did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good thing to know. Microbes living in our guts ooze a substance that could help protect us against excessive weight gain, according to observations in mice. The bacteria-derived compound may explain why early exposure to antibiotics can play a role in childhood obesity, a condition which is rising globally. Vanderbilt University biochemist [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}