Posts Tagged ‘fecal transplant’

Toilet Paper

Obesity, Fiber, and Microbes in the Gut

July 12, 2021 — Will freeze-dried poop pills play a role in the future treatment of obesity and related problems? It seems possible, but much work will go into providing a complete answer. New research in Nature Medicine offers tantalizing hints, though. In subjects with severe obesity, researchers tested the combination of fiber and a transplant of microbes in […]

Lion King in the Shadow of Toilet Paper

Two for One: Fecal Transplant + Obesity

February 9, 2015 — Fecal transplant has quickly moved from the status of a medical oddity to an accepted, lifesaving therapy for Clostridium dificile colitis. In parallel to its development for c. diff, obesity researchers have been studying the impact of transplanting fecal microbes from animals with obesity to animals without it, and vice versa. So the case report of a […]