{"id":151750,"date":"2022-12-03T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T21:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/fda-approved-a-1st-of-its-kind-treatment-made-from-human-poop-what-does-it-do"},"modified":"2022-12-03T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T21:22:58","slug":"fda-approved-a-1st-of-its-kind-treatment-made-from-human-poop-what-does-it-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/fda-approved-a-1st-of-its-kind-treatment-made-from-human-poop-what-does-it-do","title":{"rendered":"FDA approved a 1st-of-its-kind treatment made from human poop. What does it do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-approved-a-1st-of-its-kind-treatment-made-from-human-poop-what-does-it-do.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only time might be willing to take shit off someone.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u2014 Cancer patients weren\u2019t responding to therapy. Then they got a poop transplant.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The same exact foods affect each person\u2019s gut bacteria differently.<\/p>\n<p>But now, Rebyota is available as the first FDA-approved \u201cfecal microbiota product.\u201d In a late-stage clinical trial, the one-dose treatment reduced the rate of <em> C. diff <\/em> flare-ups by 29.4% in the eight weeks after antibiotic treatment, compared with a placebo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/11\/30\/fda-approves-first-microbiome-drug\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> STAT reported<\/a>. Taking two clinical trials of the treatment into account, the success rate of the treatment \u201cwas significantly higher in the Rebyota group (70.6%) than in the placebo group (57.5%),\u201d the FDA noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only time might be willing to take shit off someone. \u2014 Cancer patients weren\u2019t responding to therapy. Then they got a poop transplant. \u2014 The same exact foods affect each person\u2019s gut bacteria differently. But now, Rebyota is available as the first FDA-approved \u201cfecal microbiota product.\u201d In a late-stage clinical trial, the one-dose treatment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}