FATNESS AS A MICROBIOME ISSUE? Turd transplant leads to rapid weight-gain and obesity. “A woman whose c.difficile infection was treated with a fecal transplant from her overweight daughter experienced rapid and dramatic weight gain as soon as her daughter’s microbial nation took hold in her gut. It’s evidence to support the thesis that obesity is linked to your gut flora, which plays an important role in regulating metabolism and in converting the food you eat to calories. What would be very interesting would be the reverse: overweight people who lost weight dramatically after getting fecal transplants from skinny people (there has been some success with this in animal models).” Well, stay tuned.