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Freeze-dried poop pills being tested for obesity treatment
- bifrost 11y agoI feel like this is the ultimate gag gift somehow.
- cpncrunch 11y agoInteresting study, but the article is incorrect when it says it has "proven effective at treating tenacious gut infections". If you click on the link you'll see it is an open-label trial. Results from placebo controlled trials weren't quite so good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10679067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10679067
- DrScump 11y agoMaybe I missed something, but the article seems to imply that the pills are taken orally without describing how they stay intact past the stomach acids. How? Generally, fecal transplants have been administered from the other direction.
- dcherman 11y agoGiven the option between eating less and swallowing frozen poop, I think eating less will prove to me the more attractive offering.