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Answers to your seven most pressing questions about poop
3. Is poop the medicine of the future?
I know. The thought’s enough to make you gag. But poop has become a powerful medicine in recent years. Research keeps connecting the bacteria in our microbiomes to diseases, for better or worse. In response to this research, scientists have developed a way to heal an unbalanced microbiome and potentially prevent or reverse diseases — fecal transplants.
Fecal transplants are exactly what they sound like. A doctor takes someone else’s poop (and all the healthy microbes in it) and transplants it into your microbiome. Right now, fecal transplants are only used to treat diarrhea caused by the bacteria C. difficile. But there’s already research in the works to test its effect on colitis, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease.
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