Why you should never diet if you want to lose weight

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Why you should never diet if you want to lose weight

I think it’s safe to say that many people go on a diet at some point in their lives.

These might be intermittent fasting types of diets, low calorie diets, or low-carb diets.

They may even include eating all grapefruit for a week or drinking strange concoctions made with apple cider vinegar.

Regardless, the goal is usually the same — to restrict the amount of calories that you eat.

To be honest, while it’s easy to sell this approach and it DOES work to help you lose weight, it’s the exact wrong focus.

The weight you lose on calorie restriction schemes is usually a temporary weight loss, and most of the time people just gain right back.

There are a bunch of reasons why restricting calories is a terrible idea, and one of them appears to be how restricting calories can affect your gut microbiome.

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What is the gut microbiome?

Humans have a whole bunch of creatures living inside of us in our gut. These are primarily bacteria and viruses that colonize our gut .

The human microbiome is composed of bacteria, archaea, viruses and eukaryotic microbes that reside in and on our bodies. These microbes have tremendous potential to impact our physiology, both in health and in disease. They contribute metabolic functions, protect against pathogens, educate the immune system, and, through these basic functions, affect directly or indirectly most of our physiologic functions.

The microbiome can affect our health, our mood, and our immune system. So keeping the microbiome healthy is critical to good health.

How restricting calories affects the gut microbiome.

In research coming out of the Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, they took a look at how very low calorie dieting affected the gut microbiome of humans.

In this experiment they studied 80 people and had half do an 800 calorie-a-day shake based diet, while the other half didn’t adjust their diet at all.

When people had their calories severely restricted they did lose weight, but they also ended up with a growth of a specific type of bacterium called clostridioides difficile.

When the researchers studied stool composition in greater detail, they were particularly struck by signs of increased colonization by a specific bacterium — Clostridioides difficile. While this microorganism is commonly found in the natural environment and in the guts of healthy human beings and animals, its numbers in the gut can increase in response to antibiotic use, potentially resulting in severe inflammation of the gut wall.

This bacteria can cause severe inflammation of the gut wall — which will often lead to serious metabolic disorders like diabetes.

It’s also a bacterium that’s associated with hospital stays.

It is also known as one of the most common hospital-associated pathogens. 

In addition to the known effects of gut inflammation that this bacteria causes, it can also make it more difficult for your body to absorb nutrients from the food you eat.

These changes render the absorption of nutrients across the gut wall less efficient.

Ultimately, the effects of creating calorie deficits can lead to temporary weight loss, but they aren’t good for the body in the long term and can cause problems with losing lean body mass.

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Matt Cook is editor-in-chief of Daily Medical Discoveries. Matt has been a full time health researcher for 26 years. ABC News interviewed Matt on sexual health issues not long ago. Matt is widely quoted on over 1,000,000 websites. He has over 300,000 daily newsletter readers. Daily Medical Discoveries finds hidden, buried or ignored medical studies through the lens of 100 years of proven science. Matt heads up the editorial team of scientists and health researchers. Each discovery is based upon primary studies from peer reviewed science sources following the Daily Medical Discoveries 7 Step Process to ensure accuracy.