Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Health 101-2 | The Link between Antibiotics and Obesity

6 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD presents a short segment arguing a direct correlation between antibiotic use and childhood and adult obesity. He cites common veterinary practices — adding antibiotics to cattle and chicken feed to promote faster weight gain — and suggests human exposure to these practices (through food or giving antibiotics to children) may contribute to rising obesity.

Here's, you know, gut microbiome. There's a direct correlation with antibiotic use and childhood and adult obesity. This is common knowledge in the veterinarian world. So much so that they put antibiotics in cattle feed to make the cows get fatter quicker, they put them in chicken feed to the chicken to get fatter quicker, and then all of a sudden we eat that stuff or we put it in our kids. All the time we wonder why they're getting fatter.