Gut: Should we blame your gut for your weight?

So it now seems we had our theories all wrong.

It is the gut that we should blame for you not losing weight.

If you have any kind of social media account, you have likely been flooded by messages telling you how foolish you have been.

That it is your gut that regulates metabolism, and with a dysregulated gut, obviously you won’t lose weight.

Given that you can’t really see your gut, and more often than not, losing weight is hard, it’s easy to see why this is easily believable.

But is your gut to blame?

The answer is yes and no. In some sense, everything is to blame. Your parents, your height, your gender, whether you play sports, or how you sleep.

Heck, let’s even throw in your great grandparents in the bucket. After all, they decided not to move to a blue zone in Italy, so surely they must be responsible?

That is the problem with preventive health and wellness. Creating causal relationships between the color of my cat and my weight loss is possible if I so desire.

Given that so many of us are desperate to lose weight,, we will pin our hope on almost anything.

So your gut is the new problem.

Some of the best data for weight comes from the United States. The data suggests that the increase in weight started in the 1970s and has sped up since.

So did our gut magically become dysfunctional at this point? Enough to cause the burden of several lifestyle diseases, becoming the reason we are dying?

Globally?

You get my point. Sure, how you digest food will always play some role in nutrition.

But weight is an energy game.

It is a game played out beween how much you eat and how much you need. This fact is well established.

If there were a magical pill that could somehow fix this, without side effects, well, that product would then be the next trillion dollar company.

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