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isnt this the basics behind stool microbiome transplants (basically you take gut material from A and put it in B, B then has their gut micro enhanced by donor A

• bluGill 3y ago
  That is the idea, but does it work in practice or do the transplanted microbs cause problems?
  • agos 3y ago
    it has like 90% success rate against clostridium difficile, usually with just one transplant, and it's becoming a more standard treatment (as opposed to the "last resort" definition it has had until recently). It will likely turn out useful for other diseases, but the data is not there yet. Adverse effects are, broadly speaking, the ones that you might expect from putting bacteria in your GI tract.
    • bluGill 3y ago
      When properly done by a doctor. 10 years ago people were talking about doing this at home which is very different.