The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And when we took this microbiome that never normalized after a successful diet and transferred it into germ-free mice, these mice developed obesity and type 2 diabetes, meaning that this post-dieting microbiome stored a metabolic memory of past obesity that predisposed the mice to an exaggerated weight regain the next time they were exposed to an obesogenic diet.
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All the hormonal and the endocrine and the metabolic features that we could measure totally normalized after a successful diet other than the gut microbiome. When we measure the gut microbiome, it seemed to be persistently disturbed as though the mice were never dieted.