True. It could me misunderstood, too, as it evokes a reality-detached top manager/CEO switching a company.
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A lot of people use āfecal microbiota transplant.ā āMicrobiota transplantā sounds good on its own.
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Since poo is rather lucrative, do skinny folks need to on high alert for turd burglars?
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Obviously Iām only going to get my fecal transplants from organically raised free-range body builders. Now if yāall excuse me, Iāve work to do. [Dons biohazard gear, grabs a chamber pot, and troops into the locker room]
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the former comment there, it was not a response to the latter. Youāre imagining that it is.
I recall seeing some studies that hinted that consumption of large quantities of nonnutritive sweeteners can lead to a significant change in gut biota ā some of which are actually able to digest the sugars and thus break them down into something that the body can use.
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Cory asked that question after the jump:
āWhat would be very interesting would be the reverse: overweight people who lost weight dramatically after getting fecal transplants from skinny people (there has been some success with this in animal models).ā
And on a sidenote, who knew the British variant to fecal is faecal?
Also, awesome thumbnailā¦
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This seems completely unsurprising. For years Iāve been reading about studies that indicated that gut flora had a big impact on calories we extract from food. There are so many known (albeit not necessarily completely understood) mechanisms that cause weight gain that have nothing to do with caloric intake that anyone whose response to obesity is, āPut down the cheeseburgerā shows themselves to be completely ignorant (and an ass).
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So he didā¦ I just jumped right to the article 
Well, when maybe not when itās the second or third cheeseburger. Nor when itās a fabricated cheeseburger whose name should have quotation marks around it because it has so much other than wheat, meat, and vegetable in it.
Perhaps call it an anti-diarrhÅal fƦcal manÅuvre?
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If someone who doubts Pres. Obamaās place of birth is called a ābirtherā does my skepticism about this procedure make me a āpooperā?
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What, are you scared of words ?
Itās still a pill of shit to be eaten by sick people !
(a pill full of good shit, that isā¦)
Yeah, thereās evidence of a leptin change caused by gut flora, but thereās also substantial evidence that oneās gut flora determines how well certain types of foods can be digested and the calories that are obtained by the body as a result.
Even related people in the same environment tend to have different gut flora to some degree, and they can change a good deal due to diet, antibiotics taken, etc., so they diverge over time as well, especially for family no longer living together.
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I really expected to read something about sugar alcohols (xylitol, mannitol, etc) in your link and I was surprised that the USDA didnāt mention them.
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Oh yes, that reminds me of the Wired article about Hazda gut biomes.
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Well, when thatās based purely on an assumption of what the obese personās diet consists of, itās ignorant. Many people, when talking about obesity fall back on the āwell, they should eat better and/or exercise.ā Thatās pretty much true for everyone - it doesnāt necessarily have anything to do with the cause of an individual personās obesity, as they might have a better diet and exercise more than most thin people.
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Well, except for the fact that none of the pro-biotic supplements/food have a lasting impact. You have to keep consuming them on a regular basis, as the strains of bacteria they use donāt last more than a few days after ingestion. Also, none of the ones Iāve seen have a significant impact on body composition.
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If we should DIY fecal ecological systems transplants, we could call them Fecology: The Good Shit!
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