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Some people go to extreme lengths to implant beneficial flora into their gut... with, I kid you not, POO TRANSPLANTS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacter

Some people go to extreme lengths to implant beneficial flora into their gut... with, I kid you not, POO TRANSPLANTS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy). Seems like it's mostly done for medical reasons at the moment, but I could easily see this becoming a fad craze. You can actually buy poo tablets, and become a poo donor. http://www.openbiome.org/ http://www.openbiome.org/

kazinator 11y ago
And that is just the modern version of Chinese yellow soup.
- nathanvanfleet 11y ago
  I will absolutely not research what that is.
  - kazinator 11y ago
    Not only did you research what that is, you in fact did so before typing your comment. (I have spies.)
  - chr1 11y ago
    You should, it looks delicious https://www.google.com/search?q=Chinese+yellow+soup&tbm=isch&#imgrc=ubSxpggABQ0EHM%3A https://www.google.com/search?q=Chinese+yellow+soup&tbm=isch...
moron4hire 11y ago
My week old baby is already contributing to science. The doctors are collecting blood, stool, skin-, and nose-swab samples to try to build a corpus of data to track infection rates and see if they can draw correlations. They even took my blood and poo for it, as well as mom's blood, poo, saliva, and skin swabs.
geomark 11y ago
Those poo transplants have saved a lot of people suffering from Clostridium difficile colitis, a very serious and potentially fatal condition.
- sridca 11y ago
  Also there are a bunch of clinical trials to see to what extent FMT helps with other diseases (inasmuch as those diseases stem from dysbiosis). https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=fMT&Search=Search https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=fMT&Search=Searc...
  - geomark 11y ago
    Is dysbiosis being considered as a possible contributor to colorectal cancer? It's a big killer in the US. Lists of risk factors only include eating processed meats, type 2 diabetes, alcohol consumption and being overweight.
    - tstactplsignore 11y ago
      Well, there are changes in the intestinal / colonic microbiota changes associated with CRC, and some putatove mechanisms of causation. See: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312813002552 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312813...
pcurve 11y ago
oh that stuff works! I found the brevity of the section on side effects pretty funny. "Side effects, at least initially, are few.[4]" lol
aembleton 11y ago
Fecal transplants were covered this week on the Stuff You Should Know podcast: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/fecal-transplants-gonna-drink-poop/ http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/fecal-transplants... Worth subscribing to.
brianwawok 11y ago
People claim a large benefit of a natural birth over a c-section is all the bacteria that gets dumped on the baby coming down the pipes. Our overall understanding of bacteria seems pretty crude..
Kluny 11y ago
Just fyi, everyone who has been on the internet in the past year has heard about poo transplants. We can stop with the breathless "I kid you not" at this point, it's a known thing.

kazinator 11y ago

And that is just the modern version of Chinese yellow soup.

nathanvanfleet 11y ago
I will absolutely not research what that is.
- kazinator 11y ago
  Not only did you research what that is, you in fact did so before typing your comment. (I have spies.)
- chr1 11y ago
  You should, it looks delicious https://www.google.com/search?q=Chinese+yellow+soup&tbm=isch&#imgrc=ubSxpggABQ0EHM%3A https://www.google.com/search?q=Chinese+yellow+soup&tbm=isch...

moron4hire 11y ago

My week old baby is already contributing to science. The doctors are collecting blood, stool, skin-, and nose-swab samples to try to build a corpus of data to track infection rates and see if they can draw correlations. They even took my blood and poo for it, as well as mom's blood, poo, saliva, and skin swabs.

geomark 11y ago

Those poo transplants have saved a lot of people suffering from Clostridium difficile colitis, a very serious and potentially fatal condition.

sridca 11y ago
Also there are a bunch of clinical trials to see to what extent FMT helps with other diseases (inasmuch as those diseases stem from dysbiosis). https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=fMT&Search=Search https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=fMT&Search=Searc...
- geomark 11y ago
  Is dysbiosis being considered as a possible contributor to colorectal cancer? It's a big killer in the US. Lists of risk factors only include eating processed meats, type 2 diabetes, alcohol consumption and being overweight.
  - tstactplsignore 11y ago
    Well, there are changes in the intestinal / colonic microbiota changes associated with CRC, and some putatove mechanisms of causation. See: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312813002552 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1931312813...

pcurve 11y ago

oh that stuff works! I found the brevity of the section on side effects pretty funny. "Side effects, at least initially, are few.[4]" lol

aembleton 11y ago

Fecal transplants were covered this week on the Stuff You Should Know podcast: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/fecal-transplants-gonna-drink-poop/ http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/fecal-transplants... Worth subscribing to.

brianwawok 11y ago

People claim a large benefit of a natural birth over a c-section is all the bacteria that gets dumped on the baby coming down the pipes. Our overall understanding of bacteria seems pretty crude..

Kluny 11y ago

Just fyi, everyone who has been on the internet in the past year has heard about poo transplants. We can stop with the breathless "I kid you not" at this point, it's a known thing.