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Together, the two studies advance the idea that gut microbes play a role in turning the immune system against nerve cells, causing MS.. It will take a lot more work to develop cures or preventive strategies based on that, but the research raises the intriguing possibility of treating an often - devastating disease with something as low - tech as fecal transplants or probiotics.

Theoretically, it could be simpler and more targeted to use gene blueprints from sequencing data to build something that mimics microRNAs — binding to the same things the microRNA would — then embarking on a fecal transplant and ensuring it is safe.

It's currently a challenge to do this kind of microbial redesign — antibiotics reduce microbial burden but fail to induce major changes in bacterial composition, and from fecal transplant studies in the gut we know that bacterial populations return to a baseline population even after a major shift — so more work is needed to attempt a durable change in the vaginal microbiome.

An Australian pioneer in fecal transplants, Thomas Borody, has performed the procedure in more than 1,900 patients, and has also found success treating irritable bowel syndrome, profound constipation, and otherwise intractable Crohn's disease.

And Wargo is planning to test whether manipulating the gut microbiome with fecal transplants (in pill form) or a bacterial treatment could help more melanoma patients respond to PD - 1 blockers.

The good bacteria seem to help the drugs by priming T cells, which Wargo's group reported were more abundant in the gut and tumors of the mice who got fecal transplants from responder patients.

Today, in Microbiome Digest: interesting papers about Clostridium difficile, the use of Fecal Microbiota Transplant, studies in mice model, effect of Lactobacillus on Candida, antibiotic - resistant bacteria in sewerage biofilms, and more!

«His efforts have made the [fecal transplant] procedure — one that's surprisingly effective — far more accessible than ever before.

Fecal transplants began in animals more than a century ago, notes Lawrence Brandt.

Jul. 12, 2016 — Fecal transplants are increasingly being used to treat certain human illnesses and more scientists have begun to research the transplants» effects in animals.

Despite the ubiquity of home remedies, including Catherine's first DIY fecal transplant, both she and Tracy stress that a medically supervised procedure is far more preferable, due to the potential for disaster in patients who do not properly screen their donors.

Since the small victory, Catherine and her foundation have continued to push for more fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) clinical trials aimed at other digestive disorders, more research funding and more public awareness and education.

Scientists are excited by recent success with fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), transfer of healthy fecal matter into ailing patients, notably those with clostridium difficile (C. diff), a bacterial infection acquired after antibiotics, often in hospitals, that kills more than 15,000 people a year.

According to some of the more detailed how - to videos that have since popped up on YouTube, here's what you need to do a fecal transplant at home:

Although C. diff can be treated (with more antibiotics), sometimes a fecal transplant of healthy gut bacteria from a donor is used to stop the infection.

Then you will learn more about it at the Corner from OpenBiome, a non-profit organization that helps collect stool samples from healthy donors to support physicians in fecal microbiota transplants.

Try the probiotic enema or the fecal transplant see more in the internet you tube has some home made probiotic enemas easy ways to do it and efective or go to profesional fecal transplants... excelent results..

Read more, including about treating pets with fecal transplants, in Pet Connection, the weekly nationally syndicated pet feature I co-write with Kim Campbell Thornton and my daughter, trainer Mikkel Becker.