After Antibiotics, the Feces Pill Remains.
"Hirsch offers them an orange pill, which they swallow. Underneath the pill’s outer shell are several smaller gel capsules. Inside the smallest capsule is a glycerin-suspended clump of bacteria that’s been extracted from human feces. ‘It’s like a Russian doll,’ Hirsch told me. ‘With a surprise in the middle.’ Hirsch is one of just a few dozen specialists in the country who perform fecal transplants—procedures used primarily to treat people who have severe gut infections caused by an overgrowth of a bacteria called Clostridium difficile."
How odd, but given all we're learning about the microbiome it makes sense.
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