{"id":75465,"date":"2018-01-22T02:42:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T10:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/why-are-these-people-eating-pills-of-poop-medical-fecal-transplants"},"modified":"2018-01-22T02:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T10:42:25","slug":"why-are-these-people-eating-pills-of-poop-medical-fecal-transplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/why-are-these-people-eating-pills-of-poop-medical-fecal-transplants","title":{"rendered":"Why Are These People Eating Pills of Poop? (Medical Fecal Transplants)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-are-these-people-eating-pills-of-poop-medical-fecal-transplants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The straight poop on fecal transplants. Scientists think fecal transplants help us live longer, healthier lives.<\/p>\n<p>Quote: \u201cSeres Therapeutics is one of the more promising names in poop.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>Here\u2019s the straight poop on fecal transplants, a new medical procedure which physicians use to treat infections. <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/geroscientist-aim-add-years-lives-geroscience\/\">Geroscientists<\/a> suspect that fecal transplants could help us live longer, healthier lives by giving us a <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/human-microbiome-ibm-investigating-role-autoimmune-disorders\/\">microbiome upgrade<\/a>. [This report was <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/LongevityFacts.com\">LongevityFacts.com<\/a><\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman]<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/microbiome-young-poop-old-poop-fish-poop\/\">human microbiome<\/a> is an invisible world that is only recently coming into focus. The collection of bacteria that inhabit your body is a delicate ecosystem that can crash as you age, travel, or even take a new medication. When it collapses, it can lead to all sorts of distress.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Business End Of The Poop Industry<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serestherapeutics.com\/\">Seres Therapeutics<\/a> is one of the more promising names in poop. The Cambridge biotech company has been trying to transform medicine by harnessing the billions of bacteria in our intestines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/why-are-these-people-eating-pills-of-poop-medical-fecal-transplants\">Continue reading \u201cWhy Are These People Eating Pills of Poop? (Medical Fecal Transplants)\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The straight poop on fecal transplants. Scientists think fecal transplants help us live longer, healthier lives. Quote: \u201cSeres Therapeutics is one of the more promising names in poop.\u201d Here\u2019s the straight poop on fecal transplants, a new medical procedure which physicians use to treat infections. Geroscientists suspect that fecal transplants could help us live longer, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75465","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\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}