Hello everyone!!
After watching the documentary on Netflix: "The Mind, Explained: The Gut-Brain Connection," where they talk about fecal transplants, I’ve been thinking if it might be a good option for us. Not to heal our colon, but as part of the process. It could solve the issue of diarrhea. If that were the case, we would start a bit from scratch and perhaps better identify the foods we don’t tolerate while following the elimination diet.
What do you all think? Has anyone else seen the documentary?
Thank you very much.
A big hug
Marta
Fecal Transplant
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Re: Fecal Transplant
Years ago, some of the members here tried fecal transplants, some of them tried many times. In almost every case, the transfer seemed to help for a week or two but never longer. Fecal transplants are very useful for treating a C. difficile infection, but they don't seem to be worth the trouble and expense for treating MC.
Tex
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Re: Fecal Transplant
To expand on Tex's reply
One user, her husband even ate a very limited diet for the 6 months prior to making the faecal donation so that it aligned with her MC eating plan
this still did not assist this user.
What I have observed over the 14 + years on this group, there is NO quick way, ie NO medication or supplement that can heal the gut quicker.
Our bodies react to so many factors external to food such as air quality, toxins, chemicals, stress etc.
Patience, time and diligence is the way to heal the gut. low inflammation eating plan, low toxin lifestyle, the right nutrients, healthy mindset.
When we break a bone, to optimise healing they immobilise it for 6 weeks and then it has modified use for another 8 weeks or so. We can't do this for the gut, as it is a 24 hour 7 days a week functioning system.
One user, her husband even ate a very limited diet for the 6 months prior to making the faecal donation so that it aligned with her MC eating plan
this still did not assist this user.
What I have observed over the 14 + years on this group, there is NO quick way, ie NO medication or supplement that can heal the gut quicker.
Our bodies react to so many factors external to food such as air quality, toxins, chemicals, stress etc.
Patience, time and diligence is the way to heal the gut. low inflammation eating plan, low toxin lifestyle, the right nutrients, healthy mindset.
When we break a bone, to optimise healing they immobilise it for 6 weeks and then it has modified use for another 8 weeks or so. We can't do this for the gut, as it is a 24 hour 7 days a week functioning system.
Gabes Ryan
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
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"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
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Re: Fecal Transplant
Thank you very much, Tex and Gabes. Sorry for the delay in replying.
I see that it’s an option to dismiss. When I saw the documentary, I thought it might be a good idea. Luckily, almost everything has already been tried in the Forum, haha.
I know I have to be patient, persistent, and disciplined. And I assure you that I am, to limits I never imagined. I feel proud of myself. But it’s impossible not to keep looking for more things to do to help us heal.
Thank you both very much.
A big hug
Marta
I see that it’s an option to dismiss. When I saw the documentary, I thought it might be a good idea. Luckily, almost everything has already been tried in the Forum, haha.
I know I have to be patient, persistent, and disciplined. And I assure you that I am, to limits I never imagined. I feel proud of myself. But it’s impossible not to keep looking for more things to do to help us heal.
Thank you both very much.
A big hug
Marta
Re: Fecal Transplant
It is a very good option, but the most important thing is the quality of the donor, how the material is stored and how it is introduced.
That makes a huge difference. To think that only 1 percent of the population is suitable to donate seriously.
I know a guy who did it with large nemefocops and a woman who helped him for a while, but the right thing to do would be to repeat it frequently.
That makes a huge difference. To think that only 1 percent of the population is suitable to donate seriously.
I know a guy who did it with large nemefocops and a woman who helped him for a while, but the right thing to do would be to repeat it frequently.