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Title: Do you suffer from alcoholism? Try a fecal transplant!
Post by: MillCreek on September 03, 2020, 11:47:29 AM
Swap chugging down one brown liquid for another:

https://newatlas.com/science/human-trial-fecal-transplants-alcohol-addiction-gut-bacteria-microbiome/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=8a23c89651-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_09_03_01_54&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-8a23c89651-89720485

https://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hep.31496

Obviously, small study, etc., but part of a growing body of literature showing how the gut biome has effects throughout the body.
Title: Re: Do you suffer from alcoholism? Try a fecal transplant!
Post by: ConstitutionCowboy on September 03, 2020, 12:24:11 PM
I had a problem with alcoholism for a while. My second wife drank too much. Divorce was the only cure available and it worked wonders.

Woody
Title: Re: Do you suffer from alcoholism? Try a fecal transplant!
Post by: HeroHog on September 03, 2020, 02:19:22 PM
One "Tossed Salad" coming up! ;-)
Title: Re: Do you suffer from alcoholism? Try a fecal transplant!
Post by: Pb on September 03, 2020, 04:02:25 PM
Really interesting!  I hope it is effective in future trials.
Title: Re: Do you suffer from alcoholism? Try a fecal transplant!
Post by: HankB on September 04, 2020, 09:01:42 AM
I think that clinical trial is full of <expletive>






(Well, somebody had to say it!)
Title: Re: Do you suffer from alcoholism? Try a fecal transplant!
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on September 04, 2020, 06:38:52 PM
Seriously, fecal transplant saved the lives of our Parvo puppies last year.

Also, it was not ingested. It was inserted into the rectum.
Title: Re: Do you suffer from alcoholism? Try a fecal transplant!
Post by: 230RN on September 04, 2020, 08:37:31 PM
Is coprophagia in dogs still the correct term for feces-eating?

I'm amazed at the scientific "advances" since I quit drinking the hard way back in 1993.

Actually, quitting smoking was just as bad and I was about to start calling small town enforcement agencies to see if I paid all expenses (and hinted at a re-election campaign contribution), would they throw me in their pokey for, say, 5 days, to desmokify me.

Can't recommend that for drinking, since I never actually tried it for smoking.

I finally just balled up, gritted my yellowed teeth, stocked  up on every imaginable consumer item (except cigarettes), and stayed in the house for a week.  Toughest part was finding a dried out unsmoked cigarette in the couch cushions and flushing the g-damned thing down the john instead of lighting "just one."  But maaaan, that was close.

So yeah, quitting drinking was really tough, too, especially since then-Wife2 still drank.  She went to the big bar in the sky in 2007 to DIP (Drink In Peace).

I figure my next drink will kill me.

Terry, friend of Bill's, 230RN, and where's my 27-year chip?
Title: Re: Do you suffer from alcoholism? Try a fecal transplant!
Post by: lupinus on September 05, 2020, 10:55:07 AM
Not surprised really. But I think I'll stick to my probiotics.
Title: Re: Do you suffer from alcoholism? Try a fecal transplant!
Post by: gunsmith on September 06, 2020, 12:04:30 AM
it was on the news recently, well, the drive to work right wing extremist news radio i listen to at 0530.
 but it was for losing weight, not alcoholism.
 I just celebrated 25 years of sobriety.
  if it works, awesome, i also had to do it the hard way.
 out of alcohol/weed/ciggs - the most difficult was ciggs, that was brutal to quit 0 so i did that first
Title: Re: Do you suffer from alcoholism? Try a fecal transplant!
Post by: 230RN on September 06, 2020, 12:38:13 AM
^ "- the most difficult was ciggs, that was brutal to quit so i did that first"


Agreed.  That's why I brought it up in a booze thread.  At least they don't deliberately add additional addictive substances to booze.  Not that either is easy.