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I wonder if prebiotics are a better choice, with fecal transplants done for when you have a real issue. For what it’s worth, and doctors obviously don’t sugges
by Auracle 4y ago
I wonder if prebiotics are a better choice, with fecal transplants done for when you have a real issue.
For what it’s worth, and doctors obviously don’t suggest this, you can easily do a fecal transplant at home. By “easily” I mean that the process is simple, not that it isn’t super gross.
- ada1981 4y agoHaving dirty sex with happy people is how our species has done this since the Dawn of man.
- phkahler 4y agoI didn't even want to joke about that on HN, but it did cross my mind. Find a happy healthy person and (somehow) ask them for some fecal matter and do a transplant. Or just start licking butts... ugh
- selimthegrim 4y agoI think they found out when studying maternal vaginal swabbing for seeding microbiota Caesarean newborns that the bacteria were actually either airborne from the maternal fecal route or somehow getting into the baby from there
- zrail 4y agoPooping during delivery is a thing. So that's entirely believable.
- Hellbanevil 4y agoI don't think licking butts would do it. The gastric acids in the stomach might kill most of the good stuff? Now a turkey baster with a partner whom has no STD's might be doable. I once had a perpetually happy virginal, before me, girlfriend whom would have made a perfect donor.
- ada1981 4y ago“Your sexual partners can change your microbiome, a new study in mice finds“ https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/05/your-sexual-partners-can-change-your-microbiome-a-new-study-in-mice-finds/ https://www.statnews.com/2019/04/05/your-sexual-partners-can...
- midislack 4y agoSadly 40% of US adults already have an incurable STD so this isn’t really good advice.
- halfnormalform 4y agoMoralizing is probably a sadder tragedy, though.
- midislack 4y agoNot saying you're immoral for having an STD. Just spreading one.
- Hellbanevil 4y agoIs it 40%? I guess it's herpes for most of that number?
- Darkphibre 4y agoNo lie, I've done exactly this before. Something was coming up that'd wipe out my intestinal flora, and I'd been feeling extremely healthy lately. So I preserved a chilled sample of the 'good stuff.' Usually I'd have all sorts of problems as the gut bacteria sorted itself out, but this time it was... smooth sailing. Sure, it's... WEIRD in the extreme to actually perform. But I can't argue with the results.