Comment on Discussion Thread 🍉 Wednesday 30 July 2025

LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Shit yeah

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• Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They’re using faecal transplants for a number of issues now. Notably obesity and diabetes and other such issues linked to the gut biome. Even regular depression and some addictions. Makes sense to me. Yes, I’d give it a whirl.

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• Pilk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I would want a gastro specialist to really go through the risks for my specific circumstances before I signed up for it.

  The reason it can be so powerful are the same that can make it risky – people have died from poop that contained bad infectious material that was not picked up in screening, but also it might result in a transplant of traits from donors (food preferences, susceptibility to mental health concerns, weight changes etc.). That said, I also have an illness for which I would try any reasonably achievable treatment, even if the possibility of cure was low, and I’d be willing to take on more risk.

  I used to conceptualise FMT as a very broad spectrum pro-biotic, but probiotics typically just pass right on through. An FMT really is a total re-colonisation an important system we still barely understand.

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• SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t know much about bipolar but it seems like a pretty awful experience. The chance of a a permanent cure would be tempting.

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If nothing else seemed to be working I’d consider it. Definitely a strong link between the gut and brain so it doesn’t seem that out there even if the thought of it is gross (it’s not like I have to see or ingest or touch the stuff at least).

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I would take a da poo.

  Pretty crazy to think it works.

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yes. The idea is viscerally revolting, but same asmedical maggots makes sense. I could deal with the poop as a msy invisible process. Not maggots!

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  there is a better way

  I think I would kiss people on the face lips to get the germs/biomass I need

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Great way to get HSV 1!

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    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      fyi, i’m not kissing randos

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      • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Hehe

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