Can we ‘catch’ obesity and liver disease? Mice can

Here’s a new study from Yale University that adds another layer of complexity to the obesity puzzle: Lab mice whose intestinal enviroments were altered to create a deficiency in their immune responses developed a population of microbes in their stomachs that led to obesity and liver disease.

And healthy mice, when put in cages with the infected mice, developed the same population of microbes and the same propensity for obesity, metabolic syndrome and chronic liver disease...