Eating poop for weight loss?!?!
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Wendy77685
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I keep coming across these articles about a new trend in eating other people's freeze dried poop in capsules for weight loss. They say the idea is that thin people have different bacteria in their gut than obese people, and therefore obese people could benefit from eating thin people's poop.
Is this for real???? Has anyone else ever heard of this? I can't imagine that anyone would want to do that, but I guess maybe people get desperate and will try anything?
Is this for real???? Has anyone else ever heard of this? I can't imagine that anyone would want to do that, but I guess maybe people get desperate and will try anything?
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Wendy77685 wrote: »I keep coming across these articles about a new trend in eating other people's freeze dried poop in capsules for weight loss. They say the idea is that thin people have different bacteria in their gut than obese people, and therefore obese people could benefit from eating thin people's poop.
Is this for real???? Has anyone else ever heard of this? I can't imagine that anyone would want to do that, but I guess maybe people get desperate and will try anything?
The fact that you have to ask if it's real is rather frightening!0 -
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sounds unusual... don't think I would be keen on eating someone elses poop lol0
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I have to ask...what sorts of publications are you reading that you keep coming across these articles?
(I may be sorry I asked)0 -
It's for real that somebody sells them for weight loss.
It's for real that some digestive conditions are being trialled with fecal transplants.
Zero evidence to say it will aid weightloss.
On that note though I have a limited daily fresh supply which I have a waiting list for but I may jump you up the queue if you pay your own shipping0 -
Where do you keep coming across these articles? I'm pretty in touch with current diet and fitness industry goings on and do a lot of reading and whatnot in regards to diet and fitness...I've never come across such articles. You must be searching some weird *kitten*...pun intended.0
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Fecal transplants are a real medical procedure performed for people who have serious GI problems to re-establish a healthy gut biome, but they're performed by doctors and via the more, uh, logical route for getting things in to the intestines, and don't involve eating poop.
This sounds like a very sketchy and gross scam playing of people's misunderstanding of research around the role of gut flora in health.0 -
I actually saw someone link that article on Facebook, but couldn't bring myself to read it. I'm sure there are now thousands of desperate overweight people out there popping poop capsules.0
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juggernaut1974 wrote: »I have to ask...what sorts of publications are you reading that you keep coming across these articles?
(I may be sorry I asked)
Wondered the same thing... never have I ever come across an ad selling ' diet poop capsules' .0 -
juggernaut1974 wrote: »I have to ask...what sorts of publications are you reading that you keep coming across these articles?
(I may be sorry I asked)
exactly what I was thinking!0 -
I read it on medpage.0
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That is absolutely disgusting! No thank you.0
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emmycantbemeeko wrote: »Fecal transplants are a real medical procedure performed for people who have serious GI problems to re-establish a healthy gut biome, but they're performed by doctors and via the more, uh, logical route for getting things in to the intestines, and don't involve eating poop.
This sounds like a very sketchy and gross scam playing of people's misunderstanding of research around the role of gut flora in health.
Thank you for providing a factual explanation. As far as the OP, goodness, I can't believe the things people write and even worse, the things people believe. Not sure what these "articles" are but I'd not even waste a second reading them.0 -
The Doctors TV show did a segment on it. All the docs said they believe it will work.
I thought I was watching Dr. Oz for a minute there...0 -
Lol Im seriously gagging right now.0
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emmycantbemeeko wrote: »Fecal transplants are a real medical procedure performed for people who have serious GI problems to re-establish a healthy gut biome, but they're performed by doctors and via the more, uh, logical route for getting things in to the intestines, and don't involve eating poop.
This sounds like a very sketchy and gross scam playing of people's misunderstanding of research around the role of gut flora in health.
Agreed.0
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