The couple took Alex’s faeces, blended it with saline, passed it through a sieve, put the slurry into an enema bottle and “then head down, bum up, squeeze it in”
Woman meets frog, frog leads woman to man, man and woman fall in love," she says.
"Man cures woman’s incurable illness with his magic poo, thus breaking the curse.
I volunteered to donante my poop to my parter… Different outcome :(
I read that title as “facial transplant”.
I will be taking no further questions.
Good sir/madam, I read the whole thing thinking the very same and didn’t come to my senses until reading your comment. Thank you.
Same.
My brain instantly went to: “She was so ugly…” 😆
This isn’t new. I don’t know how long we’ve been doing transplants, but we’ve understood that the gut biome is pretty unique to each person and disruption can cause various issues. I am not learned on the topic, so I’ll stop here.
This isn’t new
For metal heath issues it seems it is?
The science seems to indicate this has the potential to fix a lot of illnesses, but I am beyond skeptical of anyone claiming that it can cure mental illness. Especially something as complex as bipolar disorder.
Yeah there’s too much pseudoscience around mental health to take one anecdotal case seriously. I’d even go as far to say that publishing this as “news” is pretty irresponsible.
Come back when you have a peer-reviewed study with dozens of test cases please
This anecdotal case is currently being used as a justification to FUND a study. Without miraculous cases like this it is very difficult to actually get your grants signed.
I wouldn’t scoff at one-off cases like these, they carve the path for rigorous research.
Oh yeah, by all means report on this case to the psychologist community. I’m saying you shouldn’t just spread this everywhere and call it “news”; There’s too many stupid people willing to do shit like feed their kinds bleach because they think it cures autism or some shit.
Yeah there are plenty of time’s that one-off case studies are vital to psychological scientific progress. Phineas Gage was crucial to early understandings of which parts of the brain did what, but we aren’t exactly going to shoot railroad ties through people’s head just to prove those things, are we?
Most of the body’s serotonin receptors are in the GI tract. We are only beginning to understand how the body regulates these chemicals.
… I’m staying sick, thanks.
You really wouldn’t take a bit of someone else’s poop in your butt to cure a chronic illness?
Fair.
There’s a lot of shitty jokes going around…but it’s been something we’ve known about for nearly a century now. Repopulating gut and colon florae works like whoa
This is the first I’ve heard about it in relation to a mental illness though. I always thought it was only used for things you need certain bacteria to fight off that for some reason yours isn’t working for. Wikipedia lists c. diff as one of its uses.
More and more we’re starting to realise gut health and mental health are closely entwined, it’s fascinating as hell
Which slams up againt the issie of mental heath needi g a plethora of endless meds rather then an enema bottle of poop.
It’s being linked to a lot of things. Last I heard it was Alzheimer’s!
