Colonic health...

[fajrdrako]

I was reading about fecal transplants over breakfast. Yeah, yeah, good breakfast reading.

Being a person whose life was once almost destroyed by candidiasis (no exaggeration), this seems to me like a Very Good Thing, to be able to readjust the bacteria within us. Seems to me this would be easier than the usual methods of colon cleansing.

But more: I have read, and don't recall where, that it is theorized that one reason for weight gain, maybe even a primary reason, is an imbalance of intestinal bacteria. Presumably if we could have fecal transplants, this would be adjustable, and it would be easy to keep ourselves at a healthy weight.

Comments

[mecurtin]

Yup. I also strongly suspect that gluten sensitivity is a gut-flora issue. I see an awful lot of people with sensitivities whose great-grandparents literally lived on bread, so it's really hard for mee to believe it's a matter of (human) genetics.

[fajrdrako]

So right. I've been blaming pollution for our bad state of sensitivities, reactions, and allergies, but that begs the questions of how it all works. A gluten problem being a gut-flora issue sounds likely to me.

[mecurtin]

I wondered aloud about the possibility, and a gluten-sensitive person who was there said, "huh. It *did* start right after I'd had a major course of antibiotics, actually ..."

So, anecdata.

[fajrdrako]

Sounds plausible, even probable.