Lose Weight by Eating Pooh

I heard this report on the Dr. OZ show yesterday: Are poop pills a potential obesity prevention method or treatment?
Another study: http://toughertimestoday.blogspot.com/2016/02/gut-microsbiota-to-improve-blood-sugas.html
 Skinny people's gut has these microbes. They've seen the results in identical twin, (One was over-weight with a no gut bacteria. The skinny one guts bacteria was transplanted into the over-weight twin and she lost all her weight.) They've repeated the study in mice with the same results.


 (Fecal transplantation is not a completely new therapy and has been used to treat recurrent cases of Clostridium difficile infection of the intestines)
Want to lose some weight? Should you eat some poop..actually someone else’s poop? That’s what researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will be testing in a clinical trial this year when they take fecal samples from lean people and give them in 1-2 gram capsules to obese individuals. Now you may think that just the thought of eating poop (or scientifically speaking feces) may make you lose weight. But that’s not the mechanism that Elaine W. Yu, MD, an endocrinologist at MGH and her team, will be testing. Their trial is based on growing evidence that the gut microbiome (the city of bacteria and other microorganisms in your intestines) may have something to do with your weight, health, and obesity.
The rationale behind the study is that leaner people may have different types of microorganisms living in their intestines and that transferring these bacteria to obese individuals via freeze dried poop (er…feces) may help the latter lose weight.
So, are poop pills a potential obesity prevention method or treatment ? Or is this idea just full of…(well, you know what)? Studies have suggested that altering the gut micro biome can lead to obesity. This includes studies that have found obese individuals to have less diverse types of bacteria in their microbiome. (Turns out just as in the human population, diversity may good in the intestinal bacteria population.) Studies have also found that things that make the gut microbiome less diverse are associated with obesity, such as high fat, low fiber, and high refined carbohydrate diets. Don't take antibiotics that kill many bacteria species in your intestines and allow fewer species to dominate. Additionally, fecal transplants (i..e, moving poop from one individual to another) have shown promise in reducing weight in mice.
http://www.details.com/story/the-next-big-weight-loss-trend-is-poop-pills

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2016/01/17/should-you-eat-poop-to-lose-weight/#328591f02d23
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