The gut microbiome looks like it has powerful effects outside of the gut.
This is a quote from the article.......
Yes lot's of studies indicate bacteria in your gut have effects on all kinds of things outside of your gut.
Always a little leery about this area of research being overly hyped though.
Most is centered around how it affects your health but none how our immune systems respond to it and how that might be just as important of a dynamic to be considered.
Or in other words if someone has depression and you have associated the lack of one thing or the presence of another for the condition it might not be as simple as adding or subtracting that particular species.
The way an individuals immune system responds to it might in a large degree affect the outcome also.
Maybe there are some kinds of drugs that could regulate how the immune system responds to intestinal flora.
Maybe there are certain types of flora in our guts (or absence of said flora) that have detrimental effects on our immune system and if they could first be addressed a lot of the other conditions would not be much of an issue or maybe be sorted out on their own without a need for an intervention.
Keep meaning to read more posts here about people who tried fecal transplants to see what their experiences have been like.
Thing that scares me is it would seem just as easy to have a bad outcome depending on what the donar is exposing you to.
Not sure weather they are standardized for people with any conditions other than c-difficile.
I just don't have the time to do research or read posts here. Wondering what recent studies on the efficacy rate of fecal transplantation are saying.
Apparently there still needs to be research in this area. And clinitions still don't use it as a first line of defence against c-difficile.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/gas...advanced_endoscopy/fecal_transplantation.html