KSW Leong et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(12):e2030415. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.30415 (full text): Effects of Fecal Microbiome Transfer in Adolescents With Obesity Thanks to John Pohl’s twitter feed for this reference.

Methods: Single course of oral encapsulated fecal microbiome from 4 healthy lean donors or saline placebo.

Key findings:

• In this randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled trial of 87 adolescents with obesity, FMT alone did not lead to weight loss at 6 weeks.
• There were no observed effects on insulin sensitivity, liver function, lipid profile, inflammatory markers, blood pressure, total body fat percentage, gut health, and health-related quality of life
• In post-hoc exploratory analyses among participants with metabolic syndrome at baseline, FMT led to greater resolution of this condition (18 to 4) compared with placebo (13 to 10) by 26 weeks (adjusted odds ratio, 0.06; 95% CI, 0.01-0.45; P = .007)

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