Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Maybe taking other people's s$!# is just what the doctor ordered

FMT stands for Fecal Microbiota Transplant, where you find a healthy person with a similar microbiota profile, take their s$!#, and put it inside of you, and viola!  Having a little fun with this but the results do look impressive. I wonder how old this therapy is.  It's been around a while.  This video is from 2014.  But it's not a new therapy. Wikipedia gets me caught up a little.  

In the United States, human feces has been regulated as an experimental drug since 2013.

From Wikipedia,

The first use of donor feces as a therapeutic agent for food poisoning and diarrhea was recorded in the Handbook of Emergency Medicine by a Chinese man, Hong Ge, in the 4th century. Twelve hundred years later Ming dynasty physician Li Shizhen used "yellow soup" (aka "golden syrup") which contained fresh, dry or fermented stool to treat abdominal diseases.[43] "Yellow soup" was made of fecal matter and water, which was drunk by the person.[44]

And the above video offers an impressive list of conditions it fixes.  

A fecal transplant, also known as fecal bacteriotherapy or fecal microbiota transplant (FMT), is the process of restoring the bacteria commonly found in the digestive tract with an infusion of feces (stool) from a donor.  

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