Eating poop for weight loss?!?!

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Wendy77685
Wendy77685 Posts: 27 Member
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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?
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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
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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!
  • 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
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    sounds unusual... don't think I would be keen on eating someone elses poop lol
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
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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)
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
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    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: 41,874 Member
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    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
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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.
  • deluxmary2000
    deluxmary2000 Posts: 981 Member
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    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
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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' .
  • bionicrooster
    bionicrooster Posts: 353 Member
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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)

    exactly what I was thinking!
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
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    I read it on medpage.
  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
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  • elaineamj
    elaineamj Posts: 347 Member
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    That is absolutely disgusting! No thank you.
  • TheBeachgod
    TheBeachgod Posts: 825 Member
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  • BZAH10
    BZAH10 Posts: 5,709 Member
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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.
  • thereshegoesagain
    thereshegoesagain Posts: 1,056 Member
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    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
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    Lol Im seriously gagging right now.
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
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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.

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