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erimus wrote:this treatment is now available in the UK at the Taymount clinic
http://www.taymount.com/

Biome reconstitution and fecal transplant

I have written several times about fecal transplant, most recently after the publication in the New England Journal of Medicine of an article out of the Netherlands showing a clear superiority of instilling healthy donor stool in the intestines of patients over use of antibiotics for Clostridium Difficile colitis. Various ailments of the colon, and possibly even obesity may be caused by alterations in the flora of the lower intestines and may be effectively treated by adding an appropriate bacteriological community. The use of healthy poop to cure disease of the colon is probably ancient, and has been in our medical literature since the 1950′s. Research has shown it to be staggeringly effective, working within days and resulting in long lasting effectiveness with only one treatment.

In the first decade of this millennium good research out of Duke University suggested that losing helminths (worms) from our guts due to improved sanitation has been responsible for various diseases of autoimmunity, including allergies, inflammatory bowel disease and maybe multiple sclerosis. There is even a possible connection with autism. There is some good research showing improvements in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis by reintroducing helminths.

I would suggest that giving people worms and introducing poop soup into the intestines by way of a tube is icky and uncool, which may be why we are so very hesitant to take up this kind of therapy even though it appears to be cheap, elegant and effective. Fecal bacteria and intestinal worms are unlikely to be heavily marketed by drug companies, upon whom we have often depended for the impetus to make major therapeutic changes. These are not things which will make anybody much money, which means that researchers, physicians, hospitals and patients will have to push for them.

The very expression “fecal transplant” is at least giggle, if not gag inducing. The term “biome reconstitution” is much cooler and should probably be the term we use, so perhaps we can get past being grossed out and move forward towards helping sick people get well.

Liberation wrote:...
It is really interesting that after some articles in the news about Dr Zamboni's findings many patients jumped into angioplasty, which is far more risky procedure than FMT, but we can not hear about people trying FMT. Even though, initial findings on FMT were even more compelling than the ones on CCSVI.

Cheerleader wrote:...
As far as the garlic, my husband has always had stomach virus issues, many bouts of food poisoning, leaky gut and malabsorption. Didn't put it together until his MS diagnosis. We think his digestive system was the area that needed most detox and healing.
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