Or maybe I have discovered a fetish.
Do you get them in pills and then mix it with coconut oil or what? (Or does it need to be pure MCT)
- Bypass the stomach acid, preserving more bacteria
- Keep the bacteria out of the small intestine mostly to avoid SIBO and avoid having to chase the probiotics with Betaine hcl, Ginger root, digestive enzymes, etc... to keep the small intestine clear which can trigger inflammation. Also not having to pre-coat the small intestine with cranberry molecules to cover any section that is missing the mucous layer.
- Feed the colon and large intestine cells MCT oil without having to consume it.
- Anecdotally I feed better for several days after doing this. I can do faster power-walks for longer. I do not run to protect my cartilage
- The only GI improvement that I can feel is the lack of discomfort from taking large amounts of probiotics orally.
- Very large amounts taken orally can result in small amounts making it past the intestine cell junctions and triggering a small immune response which may have both positive and negative ramifications but that's a much bigger topic.
- Less likely to disturb the mucous layer.
Drawbacks:
- To be useful requires a large amount of bacteria and that requires a large amount of MCT oil and getting into positions to get it up into the large intestine. Well ... it has to come out some time and being liquid one must stay near the restroom. There's no holding it in. Some kind of paste injector tube would be better, probably something similar in form factor and design as the vaginal yeast infection treatments perhaps. If this were a product I would buy it even though it would be harder to get it into the large intestine.
- The first few hours after can feel weird as the body has to adjust.
:)
[1] - https://www.amazon.com/NewRhythm-Probiotics-Digestive-Prebio...
I have not. I can not find any labs that I can trust and that have not been hacked on a regular basis.
Sounds a bit extreme
It may be. I reset my gut bacteria some years ago and use this to improve the overall gut-scape. The 4 K's are great but my personal preference is to use this method that if for no other reason it is banned by WADA. If they consider it cheating then I like it that much more.
I haven’t followed the topic for a long time, but I distinctly remember how many people were disappointed with the results of their self administered FMT. This is probably because they had unreasonable expectations about their health conditions being caused by the microbiome. The only real success stories were from people who had C. Diff and treated it with a combination of antibiotics and FMT.
However, there were a lot of negative stories. Some people had major bowel problems for a while. One person even died, though it was speculated that it was due to some of the microbiome altering antibiotics he was experimenting with.
Interesting research topic, but please don’t DIY it.
> The first person known to die as a result of a fecal transplant is a 73-year-old man who developed a fatal infection with antibiotic-resistant bacteria that were in the donor's stool sample.
> News of the man's death surfaced in June; he was one of two patients in separate clinical trials who became ill after receiving fecal transplants from the same donor
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10019775/ Fecal microbiota transplantation in Parkinson's disease—A randomized repeat-dose, placebo-controlled clinical pilot study
"Conclusions: Subjects with Parkinson's disease tolerated multi-dose-FMT, and experienced increased diversity of the intestinal microbiome that was associated with reduction in constipation and improved gut transit and intestinal motility. Fecal microbiota transplantation administration improved subjective motor and non-motor symptoms."