Steven I am aware of the research on people who take it of then put it back on again.
It no longer is me.
In my case over eating was driven by extreme stress 17 hour days and driving most of it.
Very early morning starts 3am or 4, and food on the run ,wrong food.
Over weight, grossly so, I never put myself in that Field ] and those like I get to.
Use pure lies to justify over eating.
Its a little reward I earned, save me cooking when I get home, just this once, long endless list.
I am eating out of my garden as much as I can and buying the fruits and vegs I have not got.
Working like a navee and its all good.
But should that product become available in drink form count me in Coffee any one.

Belly,

Tell me about it. Stress will do that to you.

In 1995 I weighed in at 78-79 Kg. Then we decided to emigrate. By the turn of the century I was at 103 Kg. Largely because of the stress of migration I added 24 Kg.

I’m happy to say that today I’m back below 80. I weigh myself every morning on an electronic scale. So long as the left-most digit is a 7 I’m OK.

Part of my program was to sell my car and go everywhere on a bicycle.

So I sympathise fully with your tale.

Steven I once tipped the scales at 132,yep sad,then went down to 100 and Doc said stop you need to keep that frame.
Put about 5 back then took it off and will not stop until about 90 this time and keep it there.
stress kills as quickly and as many as fat.
I feel I have the right, including myself,to insult many who are eating them selves to death but under my breath. yet blame big bones and fate only.
I see room to put the blame on personal issues but it is still in our hands.
Some truly beautiful women I have known have turned in to blimps covered in gallons of make up in just a few years after wedding, some men eating for comfort live like white mice in a kitchen .
Sorry but they feed my drive to stay on track, rude as it seems under My breath not publicly I use their inability to feed my determination.
Still interesting future concept, anything can happen and it looks sound.
After all who once would have thought the common willow tree would not just give us cricket bats but the worlds most used pill the Asprin?

Yes, a possibility of a link between gut bacteria and neurodegenerative diseases is certainly a mindblower. "Left-field" is an understatement.

However, I recently went to a seminar (I cannot remember the name of the speaker, sorry) on some of the latest research on what might contribute or cause some of these diseases, especially in ageing, and it seems that amyloid protein plaque formation is a major one. Amlyoid fibrils tend to form from incorrectly folded proteins, and protein folding disruption is exacerbated by 'oxidative' (redox or reduction/oxidation) stress which apparently can increase with age.

This I would think could be the link with gut bacteria and perhaps their nasty dissolved gases and metabolites that cause 'oxidative stress'. This is all purely conjecture mind you, as there is a lot of research to be done, however if faecal transplants work, then they work and we have to find out why.

There is also certain undercurrent that is gaining momentum lately in medical research in the possibility that many forms of cancer may also be 'transmissable' in that it may be caused by latent retroviruses that lay dormant for years and thus are very difficult to detect.

The new era of genomic medicine will sort out a lot of this sort of thing, as what used to be just dismissed as 'genetic background' (and thus not treatable) will be able to be checked.

Thanks Bugsy I found that interesting any links you care to post, stuff I could understand?
No way I understand at your level but we do farm gut Bactria in some ways now.

Belly, I don't have any links for the bacterial stuff, but here's one for amyloid diseases:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110120124953.htm

If bacterial cultures contribute to oxidative stress, which is plausible and should be investigated, then that would be a direct link to these sorts of diseases.

Ageing and metabolic diseases are the next big thing to be cracked, and I think much progress will happen soon, especially when personal genome sequencing could become routine. On another thread many people expressed concern about genome sequencing with health insurance etc, however I think that the benefits will far outweigh the drawbacks.