Fecal transplants and gut health – Can stool heal? | DW Documentary

A new medical approach that smells bad, but is full of promise: fecal transplantation. The process involves taking stool from a healthy donor and implanting it into the gut of a sick individual. Director Saffron Cassaday films her own experience of the treatment.

Cassaday has suffered from ulcerative colitis, a chronic and very painful intestinal disease, for nearly a decade. So far, traditional medicine has failed to come up with a cure. When Cassaday hears about the possibility of a fecal transplant, she decides to try it out for herself.

Cassaday begins her trial by persuading her partner to donate stool. She also visits a startup that sells especially sought-after stool from a super donor, investigates the status of medical research into ulcerative colitis, and speaks to others affected by it. She discovers that Fecal Microbiota Transplant may also be able to help treat autism, in addition to ulcerative colitis. The filmmaker documents her own personal experiment over several years.

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24 comments

  11. Superdeterministic Consciousness:

    The unconscious mind "sells" the conscious mind on the concept of Reality. The conscious mind "buys" Reality from the unconscious mind.

    Forming an illusory feedback system (creating the illusion of choice).

    The subconscious mind being a broker between both; neurological imbalances occurring when the conscious mind resists unconscious narratives (superdeterministic).

    Sentience (environmental feedback) propagates consciousness through emergent (microorganisms forming macroscopic life) sensory experiences (environmental exposure), leading to the formation of memories, thus establishing corollary emotional states (dependent on experiences experienced). These emotional markers are activated during recall (remembering).

    (Intelligence levels also being predetermined)

    Microorganisms are sentient but don't experience conscious intelligence until emergence is factored; swarming as a collective through emergence – forming greater scales of intelligence (hive-mind/macroscopic life).

    Everything naturally occurring is Nature, which includes plants, microorganisms, humans (all lifeforms), atoms, energy, stars, planets, black holes, cancer, AIDS, space, Dreams, and Consciousness. (Say what!?)

    Nature is Emergence.

    Roughly half of the total cells (~15 trillion!) comprising an average human are other individually sentient organisms (microbiota).

    Any individual that believes they aren't being wholly influenced by half of their overall cellular matrix; I would encourage them to test that theory, by subtracting half of themselves from existence.

    the Alchemist
    -Ø1

  22. I had have this condition….it's because your immune system its not strong enough,, I suffered with this for more then 10 years..worsts gut pain, ham glad my gut went back to normal again for 10 year without it…oh avoid beer. eat a lot of yogurt

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