Cure obesity with ... mummy intestines

The key to overcoming obesity can be hidden in an unimaginable place: mummies of mummies 3,000 years ago.

It's still too early to say anything about the idea of ​​restoring the bacteria in the gut with bacteria taken from the mummy.

Some scientists believe that one of the causes of today's fatal disease may be antibiotics, which change the 'bacterial population' in the gut.

Therefore, they believe that the obesity remedy can restore the intestinal bacteria population with ancient bacteria, in the period before antibiotics appeared.

One such source of bacteria is the feces of mummies.

A group of scientists at Oklahoma University is conducting excrement from ancient humans from the soil in caves and from samples found in the intestines of mummies in North and South America.

They found that bacterial DNA in the samples was very different from today. These ancient patterns resemble those of non-human primates, like chimpanzees, rather than bacteria in modern Western gut.

'My first hypothesis is that chlorinated water and antibiotics have fundamentally altered the intestinal bacteria , " Cecil Lewis said.

Each relationship between antibiotics and obesity is a clarification. It is still too early to say anything about the idea of ​​restoring the intestinal flora, but it is clear that this is an important idea to be studied.