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Diabetics have less diversity in their microbiota, and increased inflammatory markers. Obesity has been strongly linked to the development of diabetes. Akkmanseria mucinphilia (a human intestinal mucin-degrading bacterium) is 3,000 times more common in thin mice, than in obese mice. Obese mice harvest more energy from food than thin mice; and when microbiotia from obese mice were transplanted into thin mice, the thin mice gained weight.   In a 2012 Dutch study, the microbiota from super-thin men was transplanted into…..

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