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 :(

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Username checks out

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I read that title as "facial transplant".

    I will be taking no further questions.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • 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

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ... I'm staying sick, thanks.

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