If you could lose weight by letting a doctor inject a skinny person’s poop into your intestine, would you consider it? As science finds more links between gut bacteria and a litany of human diseases, University of Toronto researchers are exploring human-to-human stool transplants to combat obesity. Donor stool transplants are already proving effective in combatting the hospital-acquired superbug C. difficile, and is also being tested against ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Both groups will be followed and tested for insulin resistance, weight, gut bacteria in stool and blood and other measures. The transplants will be done by infusing stool into the large bowel of the obese patients via colonoscopyDespite the promise of poop transplants, the researchers are cautious.

Source: National Post October 03, 2016 16:07 UTC