Take about "crappy" treatment...
Imperio Mexicano
15-11-2007, 08:43
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/11/13/fecal-transplant.html
Yowzers.
Well, whatever works...
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/11/13/fecal-transplant.html
Yowzers.
Well, whatever works...
This is some good shit, Imperio.
Lunatic Goofballs
15-11-2007, 09:01
:eek: Shit!
A couple years ago, I read an article about a type of bacteria normally found in human waste(maybe the same kind) that causes stomach ailments attacked brain cancer cells when introduced there.
Nobel Hobos
15-11-2007, 10:45
:eek: Shit!
A couple years ago, I read an article about a type of bacteria normally found in human waste(maybe the same kind) that causes stomach ailments attacked brain cancer cells when introduced there.
The "Shit For Brains" treatment, perhaps?
Lunatic Goofballs
15-11-2007, 10:47
The "Shit For Brains" treatment, perhaps?
Pity they wil probably never use that name. :(
I did a bit of checking and apparently it's Listeria bacteria that's being experimented with. *nod*
Imperio Mexicano
15-11-2007, 10:47
The "Shit For Brains" treatment, perhaps?
ROFL
Nobel Hobos
15-11-2007, 10:53
Pity they wil probably never use that name. :(
I did a bit of checking and apparently it's Listeria bacteria that's being experimented with. *nod*
Damn it sucks being literate. I'd love to make a "Red Dwarf" joke here ...
http://ideilemele.net/wp-content/uploads/shit.png
Nobel Hobos
15-11-2007, 11:18
Though, more seriously, something like this was bound to come up.
Our own faeces has been a part of our environment, well forever really. Even fish consume their own faeces.
The most significant step in the elimination of diseases like cholera and dysentry is clean water and sanitation. Keeping our own shit out of our mouths seems common-sense to civilized folk ... but it's probably only significant because of the population density of modern people.
Less dense populations fertilized their fields with their own crap, without dying out. (We lived with our diseases, in a way, and it weeded out the weak.)
Taking that away is bound to have some rare syndromes follow from it. This may be one, just as children raised in over-sanitized environments (trying to kill all bacteria, not just faecal) leads to problems from a weak immune system.
I've heard that children with pets in the house (cats, specifically) are less likely to suffer from allergies or food intolerances. Pets (or farm animals, game etc) go back a long way too.
Nobel Hobos
15-11-2007, 11:21
*pic of Holy Fucking Shit*
Eww! I think I just ... hang on, it's been a while ... yep, I think you just GROSSED ME OUT! :D
Imperio Mexicano
15-11-2007, 11:23
http://ideilemele.net/wp-content/uploads/shit.png
LOL