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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Jason Klop has claimed "dramatic improvements" in the autism symptoms of children as young as two that he's treated with fecal microbiota transplants at clinics in Mexico, Hungary, Australia and Panama, at a cost of about $15,000 US.

Under the terms of the consent order, Klop has admitted to promoting and selling fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) for autistic patients in defiance of Health Canada rules and the scope of practice for B.C.

FMT treatments involve taking bacteria and other microbes from the poop of a healthy person and transferring them to a patient either anally or orally, with the goal of restoring a normal environment inside the gut.

Doctors and scientists have warned that any other use of this emerging therapy is experimental and carries serious risk of infection, while people with autism have denounced Klop's procedure as an unproven treatment that puts vulnerable children in danger.

Melissa Eaton, a North Carolina mother of an autistic child who infiltrates private Facebook groups to track potentially dangerous treatments, is responsible for bringing Klop's business to the public's attention.

She said she's also filed complaints against Klop with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Food and Drug Administration over his exports of FMT products to American families, but has yet to receive a response.


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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fecal transplants seem like a very promising treatment for a variety of illnesses, such as autoimmune diseases. But autism? That's a bit of a stretch. Right up there with the theory in the 90s that eliminating gluten from a child's diet will "cure" autism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Likely not as much of a stretch as you would think.. It's just such an immature field of study. But given some people's level of desperation I'm not surprised.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I despise that there's "legitimacy" given to a lot of woo out there. I mean, there's medicine, there's things that sometimes works that we can't figure out, and then there's people just trying to see what shit works (pun intended). Maybe we should label some things as "experimental" or not call it something that sounds "official."