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@jesusdaughter155 Farmers feed their livestock sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics to make them gain more weight. Nobody is quite sure how this works, but it's thought to be something to do with microbial diversity in the gut. Perhaps microbes that can very efficiently digest carbohydrates will...

@jesusdaughter155 Dr. Martin Blaser argues that antibiotics are contributing to problems such as obesity by negatively impacting gut microbiota in the book Missing Microbes.