{"id":97936,"date":"2019-10-28T22:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T05:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-rise-of-psychobiotics-poop-pills-and-probiotics-could-be-game-changers-for-mental-illness"},"modified":"2019-10-28T22:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T05:22:44","slug":"the-rise-of-psychobiotics-poop-pills-and-probiotics-could-be-game-changers-for-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-rise-of-psychobiotics-poop-pills-and-probiotics-could-be-game-changers-for-mental-illness","title":{"rendered":"The rise of \u2018psychobiotics\u2019? \u2018Poop pills\u2019 and probiotics could be game changers for mental illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-rise-of-psychobiotics-poop-pills-and-probiotics-could-be-game-changers-for-mental-illness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The calls started pouring in soon after word spread that Dr. Valerie Taylor was testing fecal microbiota transplantation \u2014 transferring poop from one body to another \u2014 for bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>The mental health condition is different from depression. It comes with mania, the \u201cup\u201d swings that can make people feel superhuman. \u201cBut so many people with depression called wanting to take part in the study we felt we had an obligation to try,\u201d said Taylor, chief of psychiatry at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>Two years after spearheading the bipolar study, the first of its kind in the world, Taylor has now launched a second study testing fecal transplants in people with depression, as well as a third for depression in people who also have irritable bowel syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The calls started pouring in soon after word spread that Dr. Valerie Taylor was testing fecal microbiota transplantation \u2014 transferring poop from one body to another \u2014 for bipolar disorder. The mental health condition is different from depression. It comes with mania, the \u201cup\u201d swings that can make people feel superhuman. \u201cBut so many people [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97936","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}