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twilyth
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We're only beginning to understand the importance of the microbiome but already, some therapies that alter it seem to be effective.
----------------------------------------When antibiotics can't kill the bacteria in your gut, someone else's poop sometimes can. When pit against certain breeds of intestinal bacteria like C. difficile, which causes 14,000 deaths per year in the US, fecal transplants can be 90 percent effective — but where do you find a donor? The US Food and Drug Administration doesn't make it easy, since feces is considered a drug. That's where OpenBiome comes in, a nonprofit started by two graduate students at Princeton and MIT. For just $250, the company will provide hospitals with fecal samples on demand, reports ScienceNews.   |
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This is an important topic, since modern antibiotics can radically change the intestinal environment. There is some reason to believe this can cause Type !! diabetes and a host of other problems. Which could be easily prevented with a simple enteric-coated capsule from the local drug store to restore a healthy culture of intestinal flora. Only we don't know what a healthy culture looks like.
As we go through life, we are repeatedly ambushed by discovering very simple basics that we ought to know but don't. Lawrence |
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