It may not be to everyone's taste, but kombucha tea may be able to deliver the benefits of fasting, without the hardest part – the fasting itself. Researchers found that when the yeasts and bacteria from the fermented, sweetened tea colonized the gut, they altered fat metabolism, without any other…

Someone more inteligent than me please verify thoses claim

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    8 months ago

    While the study was conducted on the model worm C. elegans – a microscopic nematode that, admittedly, doesn’t have quite the same fat-storage concerns that we do – the researchers believe the kombucha metabolic effects will likely be observed in humans.

    …yea I kinda feel like “in microscopic worms” should probably in the title somewhere.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    I feel like you could drop a table spoon of lard into a kombucha drink and see how much is left after a day, my Guess would be a table spoon.

    More likely it encourages your gut biome to more readily break down fats, than actively breaking them down itself.