Posted on 01/16/2016 8:09:13 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant
SCIENTISTS are set to test freeze-dried pills containing the faecal matter of healthy and lean donors in a bid to tackle the obesity crisis.
Twenty obese volunteers will be taking part in the research and each will be receiving capsules that include several grams of stool from slim donors.
The pills will be taken every week for six weeks without making any changes to their normal diet and exercise habits while researchers track any changes.
These health and weight recordings will be taken at three, six and 12 months, with the potential to continue further depending on the success of the trial.
Elaine Yu, a professor and clinical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital is leading the unusual trial.
While speaking to technology website Ars Technica that she and colleagues are "cautiously optimistic" but admits "We have no idea what the result will be".
The faeces filled capsules are designed to replace a person's intestinal microbes with those from the healthy donor.
The method has been tested in a number of animal studies and some anecdotal data in humans and has proved effective.
Previously, researchers took the gut microbes from a set of twins, one slim, one obese, and transplanted them into two sets of microbe-free mice.
The mice were on the same diet but those who got the obese twin's microbes became plumper, while the mice who received the lean twin's microbes remained slim.
Wikipedia: Fecal bacteriotherapy
Increasing one particular strain of gut bacteria, the ATCC 6475 strain of Lactobacillus Reuteri, has been shown to restore youthful hormone levels and youthful appearance including radiant hair and skin. If you get a starter sample of ATCC 6475, you can culture it like yogurt and get a cheap reproducible supply. If you make yogurt with it, refer to this article for a different strain of Lactobacillus Reuteri that reproduces 5 times more when it is grown with certain common yogurt cultures (S. thermophilus and L. bulgaricus).
For best results, my recommendation is to find a very healthy, attractive person over 40, and ask them for some of their poop, so you can make yogurt.
This is something to watch from a safe distance.
The side effect is the unnatural urge to bark at the moon.
Let me know! I can provide tons of poo pills!
Kind of gives the “eat shit and die” thing a new meaning.
Give to the Brown Cross.
No.
It’s “eat sh*t and diet”.
It’s not easy to poop in those little capsules.
Taste like rabbit pellets
dafuq is this?
No offense I hope, but a person with your handle might seem to be the last person that should post this article.
Now there is a marketing coup.
“Hey Fred. I bet you $100 we can get gullible fat people to pay us to eat shxt by the #10 canful if we just package it right...”
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You mean like now ?
I told my kids that fresh dog crap smeared on their chapped lips would cure them from licking their lips.
Eating poo scares the crap out of me.
Isw this the Moochelle Diet gone one step too far?
My apologies, but let's face it, crap is the only word that works.
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