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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Is there such a thing as that?

Why do you want to replace the existing flora? It’s bad flora?


18 posted on 10/31/2011 6:57:23 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

Complicated answer. Either because of radiation, poisoning, disease, or antibiotics, the flora might be damaged or even pretty much imbalanced. Or, it might be having a bad interaction with an individual’s immune system.

Traditionally, a way of treating it was with what is called a “fecal transplant”, aka a “chocolate shake”, quite literally, a small amount of a healthy person’s feces put in a chocolate shake for the person with a poor flora to drink.

But this is a primitive way of doing things. Human flora contains some 300-1000 different microorganisms, though only 30-40 take up almost all the available space. And the presence or absence of any of these might be responsible for serious medical problems.


19 posted on 10/31/2011 7:27:00 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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