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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Probiotics last about 48 hours in your gut before your own microbiome out competes them and they die off. That's why you need to have another everyday.

Just get a fecal matter transplant and kick-start off a whole new microbiome from a healthier person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd rather drink yogurt every day than take poop pills tbh, but I respect other people's choices.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not pills. Mostly, they send the poop transplant through your nose, apparently, often after mixing it with 4% milk.

I, too, wish I hadn't learned it, but it all happened so fast.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

"In the United States, human feces has been regulated as an experimental drug since 2013."

Best sentence in the entire article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I was being somewhat facetious