A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism suggests that a breath test profile of gut microorganisms may be able to tell doctors how susceptible a person is to developing obesity. Methanobrevibacter smithii. This microorganism is responsible for the majority of methane production in the human host (Buck S. Samuel et al., 2007) The study shows that people whose breath has high concentrations of both hydrogen and...
