Sentence examples for extracting calories from inspiring English sources

Musk oxen turn out to be very efficient at extracting calories to put on the fat they need to survive the long winter fast.

When Gordon's postdoctoral researcher Fredrik Bäckhed transplanted gut microbes from normal mice into the germ-free mice, the germ-free mice started metabolizing their food better, extracting calories efficiently and laying down fat to store for later use.

"Whether you're genetically obese or obese from a high-fat diet, you end up with a microbial community that is particularly good at extracting calories.

It has to consume a lot more food to extract calories.

And it helps extract calories from the food we eat and helps store those calories in fat cells for later use — which gives them, in effect, a role in determining whether our diets will make us fat or thin.

There are several possible underlying mechanisms: the bacteria might make cells resistant to insulin, for instance, or they could extract calories from undigested food, thus adding to the organism's weight.

Without gut microbes, they were unable to extract calories from some of the types of food they ate, which passed through their bodies without being either used or converted to fat.

Many of the microbial species in the gut metabolize food and extract calories, and some microbes are more efficient at this than others.

Gut microbes can extract calories from food that we humans cannot digest ourselves, and the composition of the gut microbiota from lean individuals has been shown to be distinct from that of obese persons (Ley, 2010).

Microbiota seems to induce obesity through several mechanisms: ability of microbial products such as acetate and propionate to signal via intestinal epithelial receptors; increased intestinal permeability with translocation of bacterial products resulting in high level of metabolic inflammation; and caloric salvage by some microbes being able to extract calories from food [ 12].

One of the main bacterial phyla, the Firmicutes, more efficiently extracts calories from carbohydrates than Bacteroidetes by fermentation of otherwise indigestible food components to short-chain fatty acids (SCFA).