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In obesity and type 2 diabetes, recurrent findings include reduced abundance of butyrate-producing taxa and enrichment of pro-inflammatory or endotoxin-associated bacteria, although these patterns remain heterogeneous across populations, study designs, and analytical methods. Accordingly, the review emphasizes that phylum-level or taxa-level associations should be interpreted cautiously and that causality remains incompletely resolved. A key contribution of this review is the combined evaluation of mechanistic pathways, context-dependent microbial signatures, and translational limitations within a single framework. 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