Thread: "transpoosion," "bacteriotherapy," or "stool infusion therapy."

This may be the wrong forum, but ... well we shall see.

Scientists fight bugs with poo | Reuters


"..."I used to be frowned upon and called 'the doctor who makes people eat shit'," says Borody, whose scientific papers have included such titles as "Flora Power" and "Toying with Human Motions." ..."

If you read the complete article you see that it is an apparently legitimate treatment method. The underlying reasoning sounds logical, people have a bacteria that has taken over their bowel and killed off the natural flora in the bowel and it needs to be replaced.

The whole thing is not that much different than eating a natural yogurt with live culture.

I’ll do that at the end of a bout of food poisoning to get the flora and fauna reactivated in my gut; this is just a more extreme application of the same type of treatment.

Having said that, let the potty humour begin.