Cell Reports Medicine (Sep 2021)

Fecal microbiota transplantation and fiber supplementation, better together?

  • Nordin M.J. Hanssen,
  • Max Nieuwdorp

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 9
p. 100403

Abstract

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Summary: Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is emerging as a tool to study the microbiome and as a potential treatment for several non-infectious diseases. Recently, Mocanu et al. showed that supplementing low fermentable fiber after FMT may improve insulin sensitivity in severely obese individuals.1