This bacteria may help people with obesity live healthier lives, study says
Obesity in the US Fast FactsAccording to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, overweight people who drank supplements of the gut bacterium -- which occurs naturally in the digestive system -- showed improved sensitivity to insulin, a hormone that lets the body use sugar in the blood and is implicated in diabetes.
"The main thing that needs to happen before this becomes a real clinical intervention is a big clinical trial with more people, and for a longer period of time," said Ken Cadwell, an associate professor at NYU Langone Health's Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine."Given the exciting results of this study, I'm sure this will happen soon."
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