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I bring this up to friends like once a year. It's only a matter of time until there is the stool-transplant equivalent to a sperm bank. I often feel very fortu
by throwaway920102 4y ago
I bring this up to friends like once a year. It's only a matter of time until there is the stool-transplant equivalent to a sperm bank.
I often feel very fortunate to have had no mental health problems or struggles in my life, especially as I see depression and anxiety take hold in more and more of my friends in my 20s and 30s and for those who've tried literally everything else to no success I wonder what it would be like if I could be a gut microbiome donor to them. There have been studies showing reversal of mental health disorders after stool transplants. Feels like if your mental health is absolute garbage and you struggle with suicidality that rolling the dice on this couldn't get worse only better or do nothing.
- tsol 4y agoThere are already places where people who are healthy can sell their poop. They're apparently very selective. And some people do these things themselves at home out of desperation-- so there's also a sort of underground market for the stool of healthy people who never took antibiotics.
- AussieWog93 4y ago>It's only a matter of time until there is the stool-transplant equivalent to a sperm bank. We've had one in Australia for a few years now! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/first-public-poo-bank-in-adelaide/12034138 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/first-public-poo-bank...