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There's growing evidence poo transplants can work for some conditions, including a type of diarrhoea. But they're not for everyone.
Gordon has made humble gut microbes one of the most talked about health topics of the last decade.
Would you freeze your poo for a rainy day of ill health?
Two of the most common antibiotic-resistant bacteria circulating in hospitals can be wiped out by transplanting faeces from a healthy animal into the gut of an infected one, a study on mice has found.
The idea of faecal transplants was taken a step further in the recent story of Catherine Duff who, fed up with the crippling pains and diarrhoea caused by yet another C. difficile infection, decided to…
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