Biome Influence On Overeating

Role of the gut biome in promoting or treating obesity!

American food is making us ill.

More accurately, American ultra processed foods are making our biomes ill.

Unhealthy biomes drive unhealthy appetites.

American food is making us fat.

How to lose weight without having to cut off a limb?

“Hara Hachi Bu” is the the Japanese saying of “push away from the table when you are 80% full”. It’s about discipline and eating only what you need.

You could also refer to this as systematic under-eating. Eating only what we need to live, not living to eat. Not eating to excess. To obesity.

How much is the make up of our gut microbiome, part of our discipline to eat Hara Hachi Bu or “Goldilocks” just right?

We know that many foods we get addicted to — like sugar or unhealthy fats like cakes and pastries — provide an instant dopamine hit.

Dopamine hitting the brain prompts us to take a second bite of that cookie.

It's hard to resist the dopamine, especially when that cookie is in front of you.

So how much of our will power is mediated by our gut microbiome or can be changed by modulating the microbiome?

There is a yearly Obesity Medicine (OMA) 2024 conference.