Obesity, diabetes, SIBO . . . and hate?

Lactobacillus reuteri is an endlessly fascinating microorganism that can inhabit the human intestinal tract. This is the bacterial species we have been cultivating in our L. reuteri yogurt using the two strains, ATCC PTA 6475 and DSM 17938, that boost hypothalamic release of oxytocin and thereby smooths skin wrinkles, accelerates healing, turns off appetite, builds muscle, preserves bone density, and yields other spectacularly beneficial effects. Animals such as pigs, mice, dogs, sheep, cows, and birds have abundant quantities of L. reuteri (of various strains) in their guts, but only 4% of modern humans have it, i.e., less than 1 in 20 people have L. reuteri among the thousands of species in their intestinal tracts and have them in small numbers. In other words, most modern people do not have this wonderfully beneficial microorganism and, if they do, have them in relatively small numbers. Curiously, the discoverer of L. reuteri, Dr. Gerhard Reuter, observed that this species was much more common in humans during the mid-twentieth century, its prevalence in humans having dwindled over the last 50 years for unclear reasons. (You and I can easily speculate, however, that the onslaught of microbiome-disrupting factors in modern life have likely played a role.) L reuteri must therefore be among the species more susceptible to the disruptions of modern life. Recall that, not only is L. reuteri a potent provocateur of vagal nerve-mediated hypothalamic release of oxytocin, but it...
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