Ugh. People. If you're going to post stuff like this, read it first!
This is in relation to diseases of the gut in in which the microbiota, the bacteria that naturally live in the gut, become so disruptive that they become the cause of the disease process. Probably the biggest offender here is Clostridium difficile infections. The bacteria is normally present. It's ubiquitous in the environment, but it is slow growing. In a normal GI tract, your normal bacteria simply grow faster than this bacterium and it never becomes a problem. But, if you're in the hospital and you end up taking long courses of antibiotics for various things, your regular gut bacteria get killed off by the antibiotics, and C. diff grows wild causing it's own disease.
Yes, we can simply throw more antibiotics at the problem until we kill off the C. diff, but that's becoming increasingly difficult. Bacteria develop resistance, and there aren't a ton of drugs this thing responds to. We need a new strategy.
So why not just replace the gut bacteria and let them naturally overgrow and outcompete the C. diff? Great idea! But, the gut bacteria is a complex mixture of bacteria. Just one or two species in a probiotic doesn't work well. However, fecal transplant does.
Wait, what? Yes. Fecal transplant. Take the poop out of a healthy person, filter it, spin it down, and then administer it via a catheter into the small intestine. It works. In fact, it's like 99% effective and with no side effects. It's just gross to think about. There's another catch. You've got to find a donor who's willing to collect the sample and someone who's willing to process it. You've got to be desperate for a fix. And let me tell you from personal experience, C. diff is nasty enough and if it goes on long enough, you'd do it because the alternative is living on the toilet while the C. diff toxins slowly destroy your colon. And if you've got something like UC or Crohn's which is also hypothesized to benefit from this, you'd do anything to have your life back.
Now, what if we could use real science and put that fecal transplant in a pill? Well, that would certainly make fixing problems like these a LOT easier. No more trying to prep your own treatments in your kitchen. Just take the pill out of fridge and drink with a glass of water.
Ugh. People. If you're going to post stuff like this, read it first!
This is in relation to diseases of the gut in in which the microbiota, the bacteria that naturally live in the gut, become so disruptive that they become the cause of the disease process. Probably the biggest offender here is Clostridium difficile infections. The bacteria is normally present. It's ubiquitous in the environment, but it is slow growing. In a normal GI tract, your normal bacteria simply grow faster than this bacterium and it never becomes a problem. But, if you're in the hospital and you end up taking long courses of antibiotics for various things, your regular gut bacteria get killed off by the antibiotics, and C. diff grows wild causing it's own disease.
Yes, we can simply throw more antibiotics at the problem until we kill off the C. diff, but that's becoming increasingly difficult. Bacteria develop resistance, and there aren't a ton of drugs this thing responds to. We need a new strategy.
So why not just replace the gut bacteria and let them naturally overgrow and outcompete the C. diff? Great idea! But, the gut bacteria is a complex mixture of bacteria. Just one or two species in a probiotic doesn't work well. However, fecal transplant does.
Wait, what? Yes. Fecal transplant. Take the poop out of a healthy person, filter it, spin it down, and then administer it via a catheter into the small intestine. It works. In fact, it's like 99% effective and with no side effects. It's just gross to think about. There's another catch. You've got to find a donor who's willing to collect the sample and someone who's willing to process it. You've got to be desperate for a fix. And let me tell you from personal experience, C. diff is nasty enough and if it goes on long enough, you'd do it because the alternative is living on the toilet while the C. diff toxins slowly destroy your colon. And if you've got something like UC or Crohn's which is also hypothesized to benefit from this, you'd do anything to have your life back.
Now, what if we could use real science and put that fecal transplant in a pill? Well, that would certainly make fixing problems like these a LOT easier. No more trying to prep your own treatments in your kitchen. Just take the pill out of fridge and drink with a glass of water.
This is a good thing, folks.
lol I bet you blindly worshipped the mRNA vax too when it was described as a good thing ... and we see how that turned out