"Are you obese? Have you tried everything to lose weight (black and white footage of a person accidentally springing a thighmaster into a flatscreen TV. TV falls down on top of person/ footage of person running in sweatbands and wristbands and kneebands and looking miserable/ footage of a heavy person forlornly ordering salad while all of their thin dinner companions order steak sundaes topped with bacon whipped cream and laugh and laugh)

Well, aspiring thin person — toil no more. Today, we're offering you the opportunity to lose weight THE EASY WAY: and all you have to do is have bacteria from the poop of a thin person injected into your intestines!"

So the methodology needs a little work, but the research is still pretty fascinating and important. According to the New York Times, yesterday scientists published the results of a study that found that the bacteria living inside the digestive systems of thin people may actually be keeping them thin — and vice versa.

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My surgeon is actually leading a clinical study on this. I signed up to participate but I was supposed to provide a stool sample one week pre-op, but I was at work, so the timing didn't work out. They did take some blood and a fat sample.

Thanks for sharing. It's great to see that this science is finally being taken seriously. Ironically, we've been doing fecal transplants and rumen transfaunations in animals for decades.

I was very fortunate to have a PCP and gastroenterologist that were familiar and comfortable with fecal transplants. My PCP actually said that's what i should do the very day I came back positive for C. diff. But we went through the motions of traditional antibiotic treatment for 6 weeks since my insurance wouldn't pay for the transplant. After needing IV fluids 3 times for dehydration from the severe diarrhea I finally said screw it, here's my credit card....bring on the poo. My gastro had already done about three dozen of them, so he had the routine down pat. I had to find my own donor and also had to supply my own blender since the surgical center doesn't have any "official" FMT equipment. Still, not bad medical care for rural Idaho!

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The science is moving so fast in this area that I actually scouted around for a skinny bugs fecal transplant, but my biologist relatives, internist and bariatric surgeon all assured me it would many years before such a thing is more effective than dangerous. My husband is thin as a rail while eating like a horse, and after 20 years you would think I've been exposed to all his bacteria.

I suspect the fix will turn out to be very individual, with some transplants effective and some not.

Meanwhile, surgery is the treatment with the best outcomes. So here I go, on December 29th. I'll be really mad if a tried and true EverSlimEnema comes out in 2015!

Bahaha. I love the EverSlimEnema. I think it will be sooner than we expect. In the meantime, I have been very happy with my surgery (3.5 years and counting!) and hope you will be too. What a great way to start the new year!

Lynda

weird. This is just plain weird. I would love to find out more about it.

I posted something about fecal transplants a year or so ago... and something else about the gut having nurology the size of a cat brain! Is the new term for using an EverSlimEnema "feeding the cat"?

This is fascinating! Thanks for the info and links.

I'll bet there will come a day when they'll be able to synthesize the "skinny" gut bacteria.

Since my tastes have changed so much since VSG---I think there is something there. Sweet foods just don't appeal to me like they did before surgery. I want savory---meat, cheese, olives. I'm so grateful my tastes have changed and I hope to God they never go back!

Thanks for the laughs y'all---too funny.

Yes, you too can get be that thin person!!!! with a little help from someone else's poo. (brings a WHOLE new meaning to "with a little help from my friends")---you too can be that svelte, thin person you ALWAYS wanted to be .

If it were only that simple .

Morbid obesity is a multifaceted, pernicious, cunning and eventually deadly--disease. I'm so thankful that mine is being treated now with the technology available.

Kathleen

I just wanted to come back to this craptastic thread (sorry) and say my surgery went really well on Dec. 29th. My doc's post-sleeve diet is three weeks of Clear liquids, which as y'all remember, get old very quickly. I called and asked if I could advance early to "soft" given my excellent recovery (they even released me early as I was up and walking and hydrated), lack of nausea, ability to get daily protein/water/exercise, etc. I argued that as long as I was protecting my stomach, transitioning off fake food could only be good for me.
Thankfully my dietician is a big fan of healthy biota and gave me the green light. So today at 12 days out, I had a bit of yogurt, egg, fish, and spinach (all very soft). I feel TERRIFIC.
It would not surprise me if an overgrowth of bad bugs is caused by the an excess of sweeteners, natural or not, and antibiotics, etc.
I hope that fat bias (and WLS surgery bias) will wane as it becomes clear that this is truly a multicausal disease that is tied less to character than genetics and environment.