A study showed that when immature mice were fed with antibiotics at an early stage of their life, they are likely to be obese, research conducted by NYU Langone Medical Center. It was discovered that when antibiotics were injected to these mice at a crucial stage of development, the bacteria found in the abdomen were altered.
It was also inferred that when these antibiotics intruded, it changed the original gastrointestinal function dampening the bacterial makeup which directly hits the metabolism of the body.
Metabolic rate plays a huge role in deciding a body structure. If the rate is high you can be thinner comparatively, but when the rate is slow, it will burn the fat at a slower rate causing obesity.
“During the study, it was found that when you disturb or divert the microbes present in gut in the beginning phase of mice’s life and suddenly stop the usage of antibiotics, the microbe comes to normalcy but it highly affects the metabolism of that specific host continuing lifelong stated by senior author Dr. Martin Blaser, director of the NYU Human Microbiome Program, and professor of microbiology at NYU School of medicine.
It has also highlighted some points that how microbe affects at developmental stage. It is a new notion and there is a direct evidence of it which has come into focus.
Though extensive research is going on whether this same applies to human or not. Consuming antibiotic at an early stage can lead to obesity needs some more evidence but whatsoever is the case, it should not stop the doctors in prescribing antibiotics to small children.
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