Human Poo and Treatment of Obesity

[John_Conrad]

New to me topic, so i didn't search if it had been discussed here.

There are many knowledgeable folks here, so here it is in a nut shell:

take poo from thin folk, dry it, make a pill. Have obese folks take these and possibly lose weight...

enjoy

read the article

http://www.christianpost.com/news/weight...obesity-154895/

do not try this at home!

 

[hatt]

Quote:
According to , the trial will assess 20 obese patients. The respondents will be given capsules with freeze-dried feces in a span of six weeks. Aside from the feces from lean and healthy donors, the patients will also undergo exercises and will have to eat healthy food.
That doesn't sound like much of a trial. Of course someone that starts to exercise and eat better will lose weight.

 

[Drew99GT]

Sounds like a bunch of S#@! to me...

Magic poo pills "while" simultaneously eating healthy and exercising to lose weight.

Yea, if they do lose weight, it's because of the pill.

 

[OneEyeJack]

Yep! You vomit hard enough and long enough every day while exercising you might just lose a lot of weight to say nothing of getting really sick.

 

[andrewg]

My dog eats it all the time....not human, just dog.

He seems fit, happy, and well adjusted......well, except that he likes poop.

No thanks, I'd rather exercise and eat right.

 

[lubricatosaurus]

The mental image alone makes me not want to eat. Losing weight.

 

[hansj3]

This Is a real medical procedure, look this up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy

I don't know about weight loss but other things are solved by it

 

[SZR48207]

This is similar to a known treatment (not cure) for Ulcerative Colitis. The idea being that healthy people have good bacteria that influence how the body works. Take stool from someone healthy and put into an unhealthy person and voila.

 

[Vuflanovsky]

If you agree to the idea that these people can have compromised guts with C. diff, bad flora, and whatever infections, then it makes sense that this should be a wider spread practice than it is...this concept is ancient but it's still only done on a limited basis in the U.S. A healthy gut makes everything work.

I think there's even DIY instruction on how to do it yourself which might be more effective in saline form and re-introduced to the bowel than taking a freeze-dried capsule for six weeks, but then again, a healthy donor's poop can't be patented...it'll likely just work easier and more effectively with an apparently very low chance of issues or complications if done properly. Factory line medicine hates that sh**...pun intended.

 

[John_Conrad]

are they not able to duplicate and grow the bacteria in the lab, outside the manure and then use that for the tests?

 

[Drew99GT]

Originally Posted By: Reddy45
This is similar to a known treatment (not cure) for Ulcerative Colitis. The idea being that healthy people have good bacteria that influence how the body works. Take stool from someone healthy and put into an unhealthy person and voila.


Wouldn't it be better to for the unhealthy person to duplicate the eating practices of the healthy person?

 

[cptbarkey]

Collectively the human race has done much worse (bleeding horseshoe crabs). If this ends up true, i'd eat some poo.

 

[andrewg]

Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Reddy45
This is similar to a known treatment (not cure) for Ulcerative Colitis. The idea being that healthy people have good bacteria that influence how the body works. Take stool from someone healthy and put into an unhealthy person and voila.


Wouldn't it be better to for the unhealthy person to duplicate the eating practices of the healthy person?


Why? We live in a pill culture. A pill for this...a pill for that.

 

[javacontour]

Maybe they will develop a pharmacological solution to fix our penchant for looking to a pill for solutions.

Originally Posted By: andrewg
Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Reddy45
This is similar to a known treatment (not cure) for Ulcerative Colitis. The idea being that healthy people have good bacteria that influence how the body works. Take stool from someone healthy and put into an unhealthy person and voila.


Wouldn't it be better to for the unhealthy person to duplicate the eating practices of the healthy person?


Why? We live in a pill culture. A pill for this...a pill for that.

 

[hatt]

I heard they're coming out with a pill to help control cravings for pills.

 

[DoubleWasp]

Question is, will it put a ****eating grin on their face?

 

[KGMtech]

Well, on a related note...why do we eat corn anyways?

 

[Leo99]

Originally Posted By: cptbarkey
Collectively the human race has done much worse (bleeding horseshoe crabs). If this ends up true, i'd eat some poo.


We still use horseshoe crab blood to test parenteral pharmaceuticals for the presence of bacterial endotoxins.

Sometimes the poo transplant is the best way to treat c. dif. Once bad bugs get established in the gut, it's hard to get them out and get the good bugs to take over.

 

[lubricatosaurus]

Poo is useful. Goes to show, hoarders are right in the end. Never throw anything away, it could be useful.

 

[Pop_Rivit]

I suppose that some people would prefer a poo pill to build gut bacteria rather than foods such as broccoli, bananas, beans and blueberries. Personally I've never tried a poo pill and don't believe I ever would; I'll stick with a healthy, well-rounded diet and lifestyle.

But given the pill popping (or is that pill pooping in this case?) nature of much of society, I suppose that a poo pill is one of those things that would be expected.