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The Pros And Cons Of Fecal Transplants

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I would agree because Fecal transplants can be life-saving for people with stubborn bacterial infections, but they 're not for the faint of heart. So doctors have come up with a way to make them more palatable: the frozen poop pill.A pill wouldn 't require invasive procedures, the researchers speculated, and would be less likely to cause vomiting. And if they froze the pills, donors wouldn 't need to be standing by. To test that hypothesis, the researchers got donations from young, healthy volunteers screened to make sure they didn 't have HIV, hepatitis or other infectious diseases. They froze the material and waited four weeks to test the donors again. Once the donors got a clean bill of health, pill production began."When I first started

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