Eating poop for weight loss?!?!

Wendy77685
Wendy77685 Posts: 27 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
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?
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  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
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  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    edited January 2016
    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!
  • carmkizzle
    carmkizzle Posts: 211 Member
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  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
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  • fitmumnz
    fitmumnz Posts: 8 Member
    sounds unusual... don't think I would be keen on eating someone elses poop lol
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    I have to ask...what sorts of publications are you reading that you keep coming across these articles?


    (I may be sorry I asked)
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    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 shipping ;)
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    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.
  • emmycantbemeeko
    emmycantbemeeko Posts: 303 Member
    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.
  • deluxmary2000
    deluxmary2000 Posts: 981 Member
    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.
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,031 Member
    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' .
  • bionicrooster
    bionicrooster Posts: 353 Member
    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!
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    I read it on medpage.
  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
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  • elaineamj
    elaineamj Posts: 347 Member
    That is absolutely disgusting! No thank you.
  • TheBeachgod
    TheBeachgod Posts: 825 Member
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  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,741 Member
    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.
  • thereshegoesagain
    thereshegoesagain Posts: 1,056 Member
    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...
  • tracymn925
    tracymn925 Posts: 21 Member
    Lol Im seriously gagging right now.
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    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.
  • goldthistime
    goldthistime Posts: 3,213 Member
    I've seen a scientific article reference the reverse condition, where a woman with C. difficile gained weight after a fecal transplant from someone overweight. My guess is that someone decided if a change in gut bacteria could help you gain weight then it follows that the right gut bacteria could help you lose weight. Maybe. But it's also possible that this first woman gained weight because she finally had a properly functioning digestive system.

    Then again, if someone gave you a fecal transplant containing a good dose of C. difficile, maybe you WOULD lose weight.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    edited January 2016
    BZAH10 wrote: »
    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.

    I have Crohn's and I know quite a few Crohn's and ulcerative colitis people who have had fecal transplants but it was to treat c diff
  • time2cutnow
    time2cutnow Posts: 150 Member
    I will sell you my poop!
  • magtart
    magtart Posts: 161 Member
    Holy crap!
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    magtart wrote: »
    Holy crap!

    There has been no double blind study on holy crap to my knowledge o:)
  • starwhisperer6
    starwhisperer6 Posts: 402 Member
    I am betting that none doctor selling of poop in any form probably has some legal ramifications. Biohazard and all that. For gut health I have heard of doctors doing so.
  • MikeSanchez2323
    MikeSanchez2323 Posts: 30 Member
    I googled it, and this is just one of the articles I found talking about a new study to see if it would help with weight loss. It is different than what has been done for years with fecal transplants, this would be taking it orally in capsule form for weight loss. They haven't started the study yet, but it looks like you can still sign up! haha https://www.myliporidex.com/blog/should_you_eat_poop_to_lose_weight/
  • CoffeeNCardio
    CoffeeNCardio Posts: 1,847 Member
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  • harrybananas
    harrybananas Posts: 292 Member
    Op, I'm very interested in this new breakthrough. Please give it a try and report back. I may join you should the results prove to be correct.
  • Wendy77685
    Wendy77685 Posts: 27 Member
    bionicrooster wrote: »
    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!

    I actually read about the study in an article I just cam across randomly in Women's Health Magazine. Then I googled it and then a lot of other articles came up, so I was wondering if anyone else had heard of it too - BECAUSE it sounds crazy to me that anyone would fall for that or do that in reality. BTW I was in no way referring to the actual medical procedure many of you are referring to, I am aware of fecal transplants, and these are two different things...

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