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This was a fascinating read, thank you for sharing. Were there really no lasting effects? I'm curious why the introduced bacteria didn't flourish and permanentl

• z3t4 4y ago
  We are what we eat. Could try changing to the same diet as the donor...
• Mountain_Skies 4y ago
  It might be that they have to hit a certain critical mass to become self-sustaining. Or they require a particular environment to thrive, which exists in the donor but not in the donee. It's such a new field, at least for prescriptive medicine, that it'll probably be a while before we get a good base of understand of what lives in our gut, what it does, and how to keep it healthy.
  • Darkphibre 4y ago
    My money is indeed on the environment. You'd want to know what that donor was eating, and try to replicate it.