More fecal transplant evidence that our gut flora are important

[DianaCox]

http://ofid.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/1/ofv004.full.pdf+html

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a promising treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. We report a case of a woman successfully treated with FMT who developed new-onset obesity after receiving stool from a healthy but overweight donor. This case may stimulate further studies on the mechanisms of the nutritional-neural-microbiota axis and reports of outcomes in patients who have used nonideal donors for FMT.

 

[DianaCox]

http://www.newsweek.com/its-easier-donate-your-blood-stool-333454

 

[Munchkin]

So they should be collecting poop from really thin people?

 

[DianaCox]

So they should be collecting poop from really thin people?

@Spiky Bugger - tell her.
Yes, absolutely. I'd volunteer to do a gut cleanout followed by thin person transplant if I could, just to see what would happen.

 

[Munchkin]

I would try it too!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

All I know is that I'm in the 80+% for whom the FMT cures c. diff and other than THAT particular shit, I didn't give a shit about much else!