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Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by justinator on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:04PM (#26039269)
"You stuff someone else's shit! Up your ass!"

I guess the counterpoint is that maybe we don't have to sanitize every damn thing in the world, since a sanitized world isn't a healthy world - and perhaps contributes to an individual's wonky biome.

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Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by m463 on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:25PM (#26040173)
I think you would only transplant healthy biomes, which have plenty of immune system action involved so that there are plenty of beneficial bacteria, and little or no say e coli.

It might actually be the transplanting of immune cells that helps strengthen the recipients' immune action

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Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by AlbinoDrought on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:45PM (#26043383)
Related FDA advisory about a time where drug-resistant E.coli was transmitted via fecal transplant: https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availabi...
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Re:Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responder... by whoisburbansky on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:06PM (#26039297)
The tone of the first half of your comment had me thinking the rest of it was about not sanitizing vocabulary, rather than talking about the hygiene hypothesis, haha.
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