{"id":674,"date":"2014-09-09T03:48:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T03:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipa.local\/blog\/?post_type=ftg&p=674"},"modified":"2014-09-09T03:48:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T03:48:48","slug":"bacteria-undo-msg-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/bacteria-undo-msg-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria Undo Some of MSG Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"

One in three adults on the planet is overweight.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The World Health Organization data are not promising. Bringing down those numbers is turning out to be a colossal challenge given that throughout the entirety of evolutionary history, humans have been and still are programmed to defend against starvation, not obesity. Dieting doesn\u2019t work for most. The weight comes right back on.<\/p>\n

Our microbes are being considered<\/strong>. Scientists know <\/a>that heavy people have different microbes than lean people. And transplanting bacterial populations in mice can also transform weight gain patterns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One recent experiment from Ukraine<\/a> looked at the effect of probiotic therapy on obese rats. The rats were induced to become obese by a neonatal administration of monosodium glutamate (MSG). An injection of MSG at 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 days after birth produced visceral fat (abdominal) and metabolic syndrome (a collection of miscreants which can include high triglycerides, high blood pressure and high blood sugar as well as central obesity)<\/p>\n

The probiotic mixture contained strains of Lactobacillus casei<\/em> and Bifidobacterium animalis.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the rats treated with probiotics, weight and body mass index did not differ from those untreated. But there were positives in the probiotic group<\/strong>:<\/p>\n