Eating poop for weight loss?!?!
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Well people eat periods, bull balls, intestines and toss salads so it's not too far fetched. lol0
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Substitute the word "poop" for intestinal flora. And yes it is a thing. Which is showing results.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-gut-bacteria-help-make-us-fat-and-thin/
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/328/5975/228.abstract
Thank you for posting those articles! Cool stuff I learned...
1) "Documenting such differences does not mean the discrepancies are responsible for obesity, however. To demonstrate cause and effect, Gordon and his colleagues conducted an elegant series of experiments with so-called humanized mice...The mice ate the same diet in equal amounts, yet the animals that received bacteria from an obese twin grew heavier and had more body fat than mice with microbes from a thin twin. As expected, the fat mice also had a less diverse community of microbes in the gut."
2) "then repeated the experiment with one small twist: after giving the baby mice microbes from their respective twins, they moved the animals into a shared cage. This time both groups remained lean. "
Why did they remain lean?
3) "the mice carrying microbes from the obese human had picked up some of their lean roommates' gut bacteria—especially varieties of Bacteroidetes—probably by consuming their feces, a typical, if unappealing, mouse behavior."
Mice are already more advanced than us on this particular medical discovery...0 -
Wombats poo in cubes
sounds like nature has prepared for this experiment to me
there you go OP - eat wombat poo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m52Rdp_b5dQ
Thanks for posting. That wombat is so precious. I wanna know why it's cubed...like his intestinal tract has corners? I can't look it up, I'm at work.0 -
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I read a article about it ( was a paper of some sort) it had to do with gut micro biome in rats and fecal transplant. There were human trials where it was found that the fecal transplant of thinner to fatter people ( and it was given in a capsule sanitized etc) it did help to lose weight through their micro biome. However did end up causing other diseases ( I don't remember what tho)0
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Entries in MFP are now explained. Finally.
Dinner
Dutchess - Poop, 2 poopies 150
Poop - Squat, 8 oz 60
pu - poop, 5 gallons 20
Toilet - Poop, 0.25 cup 222
M&m's - Peanut Poop, 1.5 oz 220
Dave's - *kitten* Sandwich With Gravy, 1 hour 1,000
Homemade - Sh%t on A Shingle, 1 SHINGLE 200
Shitso - Tiny Turds, 2 turds 500 -
Wouldn't it be less gross just to eat some yogurt?0
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They do have these pills but they are to cure C.Diff....an intestinal infection you can get from long term use of antibiotics. Wouldnt recommend them for any other use.0
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I bet I would lose weight if I got E. coli from someones poo.0
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Does this mean that I can maybe make money selling my poop?0
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EvgeniZyntx wrote: »Wouldn't it be less gross just to eat some yogurt?
well thats not as fun as eating your own poo, now is it????? Gives whole new meaning to the term "talking *kitten*"0 -
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chunky_pinup wrote: »Too bad it's not vegan.
I guess that's an interesting point.
Is a poop pill from a vegan, ok for vegans to take?
Vegans seem to be against eating animals or animal products, but they aren't against babies drinking breast milk etc
So cow milk is a no no but human milk is ok. So is human poop ok also. No cute furry animals were harmed, caged, used, killed.
I guess poop pills would be similar to ice cream made from human breast milk, is that ok for vegans?
How can we be sure that humans aren't being chained to porta-potties for their skinny poo? Factory Farming human poop!0 -
Well people eat periods, bull balls, intestines and toss salads so it's not too far fetched. lol
Placenta too.
I don't have the time nor the energy to read anything related to this, but I suppose I can see where transferring bacteria could be beneficial in some instances.... Why not? I don't see where this would do anything magical for weight loss though.
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I would be worried about diseases that can be transmitted via fecal-oral route. Some examples: c. Diff, hepatitis a/e, cholera, typhoid fever, e. Coli, tape worms, the list continues. You can bet a company that is looking to make money from this, is likely not following good screening practices for these diseases.
One of the primary conditions it is being tested to treat is c. diff.0 -
Well people eat periods, bull balls, intestines and toss salads so it's not too far fetched. lol
Placenta too.
I don't have the time nor the energy to read anything related to this, but I suppose I can see where transferring bacteria could be beneficial in some instances.... Why not? I don't see where this would do anything magical for weight loss though.
I think it is furthering research from this:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-gut-bacteria-help-make-us-fat-and-thin/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829625/0 -
hopeandtheabsurd wrote: »Why, WHY would anyone want to take it orally?! Sometimes a suppository IS the lesser of the two evils.
In order to have a fecal transplant, at this point, you have to find your own donor and do much of the work yourself. You have to hope that you just happen to have a friend or family member with the GI microbiome that will cure what ails you (c. diff, diabetes, UC, obesity, etc.)
?? Find your own donor? Not at a good hospital you wouldn't.0 -
Eating poop for weight loss? Whatever happened to doing things just for the romance? Suddenly even hugs and coprophagia have to be about health benefits?0
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"Soylent Brown is people!"
People poop, anyway.0 -
blues4miles wrote: »Substitute the word "poop" for intestinal flora. And yes it is a thing. Which is showing results.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-gut-bacteria-help-make-us-fat-and-thin/
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/328/5975/228.abstract
Thank you for posting those articles! Cool stuff I learned...
1) "Documenting such differences does not mean the discrepancies are responsible for obesity, however. To demonstrate cause and effect, Gordon and his colleagues conducted an elegant series of experiments with so-called humanized mice...The mice ate the same diet in equal amounts, yet the animals that received bacteria from an obese twin grew heavier and had more body fat than mice with microbes from a thin twin. As expected, the fat mice also had a less diverse community of microbes in the gut."
2) "then repeated the experiment with one small twist: after giving the baby mice microbes from their respective twins, they moved the animals into a shared cage. This time both groups remained lean. "
Why did they remain lean?
3) "the mice carrying microbes from the obese human had picked up some of their lean roommates' gut bacteria—especially varieties of Bacteroidetes—probably by consuming their feces, a typical, if unappealing, mouse behavior."
Mice are already more advanced than us on this particular medical discovery...
This is both disgusting and very interesting at the same time. Ok, so even if it is effective, it just seems like there would have to be a better way to get the same results!0 -
I saw someone mention this in another thread and had to search for it. What the....?!? I thought it must have been a joke, but looks like it is real.
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I was in recovery while this was originally posted. I'm glad someone bumped it. XD
It's actually quite fascinating to read up on gut bacteria and how it may or may not affect weight. I normally roll my eyes at people who claim diet soda is bad for you, but when someone mentioned its affect on gut bacteria, it got me curious. (Not curious enough to put down my diet Dr. Pepper).
I'm extremely interested to learn what comes out of this in five years or so.0 -
probably by consuming their feces, a typical, if unappealing, mouse behavior.
Dang, mice are freaks. Little furry freaks. Invite some mice to your party if you want it to go off.
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feisty_bucket wrote: »probably by consuming their feces, a typical, if unappealing, mouse behavior.
Dang, mice are freaks. Little furry freaks. Invite some mice to your party if you want it to go off.
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VoiceWithNoValue wrote: »Even if it's real, it won't be healthy for you. You can eat your own poop to only have a minor stomach problem, yes. But eating other's poop is the same as you asking to be hospitalized. The different bacteria will only causes problems to those who ate others' poop.
So, is it real? Perhaps, Japan made chips out of human poop before and marketed it.
Is it healthy? No, absolutely not.
Well there is a medical treatment called a fecal transplant where the feces from a healthy gut is given to a patient severely lacking.... But these pills are certainly not a medical procedure!0 -
Hearts_2015 wrote: »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!
no kidding that is scary
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You could lose weight quickly eating just about anyone's poop. It's called E. Coli.0
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JanetYellen wrote: »Will cat poop work? I'd like to make money selling it. My cats eat clean purina cat chow.
And now we have an answer to this little guy's question...
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If losing weight depending on me eating someone's poop I'd just have to be a fatty.... lol0
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There is research going into fecal transplants for serious conditions such as C.diff. But, it's very experimental. It has saved some people's lives, but comes with very big risks. So, you would need to be in such a serious condition that the risk would be worth taking. It can cause a thin person to become obese and the other way around (that's one of the side effects). Usually you do not eat the poop because that's even more risky. Usually it goes in the other end with an enema. But, you would be better off trying less invasive things first such as diet changes, lifestyle changes (exercise, reducing stress, etc), probiotics, prebiotics, only taking antibiotics when absolutely necessary. And giving it time to change on it's own. When a person does get a fecal transplant they usually find their own donor (partner or family member).0
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