Re: differing weight gain and loss on SCD

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“Some people continue losing weight, other people regularize and then turn around and gain the weight back. And then it can even be hard to keep weight off after a while” Boy, my son would love to have this problem! I don’t understand though why weight gain would become such an issue given how balanced and healthy this way of eating is. Can anyone explain this.People have different bacteria in their guts. They break down the food in differing ways - and when the food is broken down differently, they have different calorie counts. By the way,this is just being discovered officially by medical science *right the hell now* as the DNA sequencing of the bacteria in our gut continues - but Elaine intuited it years ago from the medical evidence she was familiar with from people on the SCD. Which is fairly impressive:"Obese people also have a different set of species in their guts than people of normal weight."http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13micro.html?_r=1 & ref=scienceThe state of the state on bacterial/microbe research genome: How Microbes Defend and Define UsSpeaking of, I know someone who has struggled with her weight her entire life and is going through a rough patch, getting a divorce, etc. and is now considering getting one of those stomach surgeries. I've tried discouraging her, but she haspretty much given up - can't fight the bad bugs because the bad bugs don't want her to, etc. Here we all know that there is a vicious cycle in the sense that they exercisequite a bit of brain washing control over us since they can emit neural signals in the gutthat travel direct to the brain, and often can override the will of the person in whomthey reside when they trigger their food compulsions, etc, especially when they are notin an absolutely determined fighting mood. And feeling wishy-washy or depressed,etc. Anyway, this article made me wonder why fecal transplant - from a skinny person -would not work as well as it did in the case of banishing the c. difficile, the casethat is cited at the beginning of the article. I'm wondering why we have no heard of it yet. Certainly much cheaper and less risk than the stomach operation. Though wondering if you have the skinny person bacteriaand the overweight person bacteria in a matchup, would the overweight personbacteria prove the more dominant variety? Mara