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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_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/

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

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=Searc...

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.

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/S1931312813...

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..

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.

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.

Fecal transplants were covered this week on the Stuff You Should Know podcast: http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/fecal-transplants...

Worth subscribing to.

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

I will absolutely not research what that is.

Not only did you research what that is, you in fact did so before typing your comment.

(I have spies.)

You should, it looks delicious https://www.google.com/search?q=Chinese+yellow+soup&tbm=isch...

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

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