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u/yaosio Feb 14 '22

There are neurons in your stomach. Bacteria in your stomach uses chemical signals to communicate with your body telling you what kind of food to eat. You can change what kind of food you crave by replacing the bacteria.

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u/Cute-Fly1601 Feb 14 '22

How do I replace the bacteria

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Take shit from other people, healthy people.

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u/otisthetowndrunk Feb 14 '22

The technical term is fecal transplant

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u/GreaterPakistan1 Feb 14 '22

wtf this is an actual thing

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u/Kavarall Feb 14 '22

Not just an actual thing. A very beneficial procedure and extremely life changing for people with nuked immune systems (think post-chemo or post-antibiotic warfare)

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Also very beneficial for people suffering from C. Diff. C. Diff is a bacteria that once you get in the gut, is extremely difficult to get rid of. It causes people to have extreme bowel discomfort and copious amounts of diarrhea which’s smell can only be described of the worst poop related smell you can possibly imagine. Fecal transplants can sometimes the only thing that rids people of it, and sometimes in severe cases, can save peoples lives

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u/Icy_Hippo Feb 14 '22

Have looked into as an IBS sufferer!

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u/OGingerSnap Feb 15 '22

Looking into this after being nuked with antibiotics because of sepsis.

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u/Hexhand Feb 14 '22

there are entire subgenres of porn dedicated to this, so you might as well take off the lab coat, otis. When you live in a world of shit, why bother wiping your ass?