Bariatric Surgery Patients May Require Microbiome Boost, Research Suggests.

researchers pointed to a need to shore up the composition of the gut’s microbiota ecosystem before or during bariatric surgery after they found persistent decreased microbial richness in severely obese patients.” The researchers “found that both adjustable gastric banding and Roux-en-Y-gastric bypass improved microbial gene richness, but that microbial abundance was only partly restored in the majority of patients.” MedPage Today adds, “Most had persistently low richness despite major metabolic improvement and weight loss.” The findings were published in Gut. https://mail.google.com/_/scs/mail-static/_/js/k=gmail.main.en.qldmEFqhsso.O/m=pds,pdl,pdit,m_i,pdt,t,it/am=Xv8O4A4Qbx8QEAA4O2MRhoOANANh5v8IsjTA2w3I7P__D0BgANADwDfg_w_QcgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKAFBX4B/rt=h/d=1/im=1/rs=AHGWq9BbmyS6wg0vO76uENrOSmz7KH1QfQ