Eating poop for weight loss?!?!

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  • rawroy
    rawroy Posts: 106 Member
    Well people eat periods, bull balls, intestines and toss salads so it's not too far fetched. lol
  • blues4miles
    blues4miles Posts: 1,481 Member
    jgnatca 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...
  • blues4miles
    blues4miles Posts: 1,481 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    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.
  • CoffeeNCardio
    CoffeeNCardio Posts: 1,847 Member
    edited January 2016
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    ETA: Credit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/12/poop-emoji-ice-cream_n_6857388.html
  • angelexperiment
    angelexperiment Posts: 1,917 Member
    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)
  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    Entries in MFP are now explained. Finally.
    Dinner
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    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 50
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    Wouldn't it be less gross just to eat some yogurt?
  • kdblpn
    kdblpn Posts: 147 Member
    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.
  • chastity0921
    chastity0921 Posts: 209 Member
    I bet I would lose weight if I got E. coli from someones poo.
  • yourhiddengem
    yourhiddengem Posts: 171 Member
    Does this mean that I can maybe make money selling my poop?
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    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*"
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    _Terrapin_ wrote: »
    PikaKnight wrote: »
    CoffeeNCardio wrote: »
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    This is what I think with some of the threads that pop poop up here.
    fixed fir u.

    :laugh:
  • chunky_pinup
    chunky_pinup Posts: 758 Member
    Merkavar wrote: »
    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!
  • cnbbnc
    cnbbnc Posts: 1,267 Member
    rawroy wrote: »
    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.

  • neohdiver
    neohdiver Posts: 738 Member
    elphie754 wrote: »
    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.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    cnbbnc wrote: »
    rawroy wrote: »
    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/
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    neohdiver wrote: »
    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.
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    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?
  • TheBeachgod
    TheBeachgod Posts: 825 Member
    "Soylent Brown is people!"
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    People poop, anyway.
  • ChristinaOrr65
    ChristinaOrr65 Posts: 112 Member
    blues4miles wrote: »
    jgnatca 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!
  • whit37k
    whit37k Posts: 22 Member
    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. :s
  • ManiacalLaugh
    ManiacalLaugh Posts: 1,048 Member
    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.
  • feisty_bucket
    feisty_bucket Posts: 1,047 Member
    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.



  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    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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  • brb_2013
    brb_2013 Posts: 1,197 Member
    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!
  • tugsandpulls760
    tugsandpulls760 Posts: 206 Member
    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
  • simply_cidalia
    simply_cidalia Posts: 8 Member
    You could lose weight quickly eating just about anyone's poop. It's called E. Coli.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    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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  • tesha_chandler
    tesha_chandler Posts: 378 Member
    If losing weight depending on me eating someone's poop I'd just have to be a fatty.... lol
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    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).

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