Same Poop, Different Gut

[Moontanman]

Same poop, different gut

For physicians and researchers alike, fecal transplants present an opportunity to gain insight into disease

 

 

 

Most people might find the idea of having another person's feces injected into their intestine hard to stomach, but for those with intractable gastrointestinal problems, another person's bodily waste is all that's standing between a lifetime of severe illness and a full recovery.

 

This therapy -- known as fecal transplants, bacteriotherapy, or human probiotic infusions -- has taken to the limelight in recent years, not only because its gross factor makes for great headlines, but in great part because of the growing epidemic of a particularly toxic strain of Clostridium difficile that has been plaguing hospitals across the U.S. for the past decade and affecting more than a quarter of a million Americans per year.

 

 

Read more: Same poop, different gut - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/57795/#ixzz14FArVp4R

[maikeru]

Moontanman, there's a king-sized **** on my screen. Are you sure it needs to be that big? Someone left his calling card!

[Michaelangelica]

Fascinating thanks

I just finished reading "the Intelligent Gut' (title?)quite astounding

The GIT can countermand instructions from the brain ; can even act if cut off from it.

it may be a possibility that all the bacteria in the stomach "talk" to the billions of neurons there.(next in number after brain)

This would easily give it more computing power than the brain.

 

PS it is quite a tastefull poo pic maikeru, if a little grandiose, ;)

but have you learn how to size images in Hypography yet?

[Moontanman]

I made it big on purpose! While it's gross thing for us to think about a great many animals eat poo to obtain the correct bacteria.