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.
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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.
I read that title as "facial transplant".
I will be taking no further questions.
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.
Most of the body's serotonin receptors are in the GI tract. We are only beginning to understand how the body regulates these chemicals.
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
... I'm staying sick, thanks.
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