[mechnesium]

Edit: Not medical advice.

Cancer is largely a failure of the immune system, and it is well known that nearly 70% of the immune system lives in the digestive tract. Sometimes the microbiome in that digestive tract gets messed up, paving the way to bowel issues, autoimmune disorders, general illness, and cancer. Studies have even shown that poor gut health is linked to many mental health issues such as depression and autism. Populating the digestive tract with healthy microbes from another person is a good way to jumpstart it again.

I’ve actually done probiotic and fecal transplant enemas at home and put my UC into remission without the need for steroidal or anti-inflammatory medications. It can be easily done using standard enema equipment, healthy donor stool, saline and oral loperamide to increase efficacy. Expect to be able to fill the rectum, ascending, transverse, and descending colon. There are big risks to this, especially if you are immunocompromised. Most people will want advice or support from a doctor.

[surfsvammel]

Careful. As someone with UC myself, I’d like to say, be careful promoting procedures like this. I’ve looked into this myself, quiet a bit, and although many studies show promise—as someone in this thread also previously said; we are not yet sure what is going on—it is not clear that poop transplants (especially administered at home by oneself) is safe.

Don’t do this yourself. Speak to your doctor.

[mechnesium]

Thanks. It’s understandable that it’s radical so I put a little note that I’m not offering medical advice.

[leptoniscool]

Wow that's amazing! One reason that I suspect these therapies aren't more widely used is the lack of funding. Big pharmaceutical companies have millions to spend on R&D and also fund studies.

[mechnesium]

Yeah. Admittedly, I was frustrated with having to rely on $1000+ a month prescriptions to treat my symptoms rather than the underlying cause. My venture into researching the human microbiome and homemade enemas was sprinkled with “danger” and “don’t try this at home.” Being riddled with daily bouts of diarrhea caused by my UC, I wasn’t go to just sit idly by.

Enema kits are sold in grocery stores and are perfectly safe if not used regularly. There was simply no reason for me to believe that breaking open some probiotic capsules or putting a little poop in that enema is going to kill me. More than likely, toxic megacolon or colon cancer is going to kill me if I didn’t take the risk.

I consider myself a body hacker, having experimented with nootropics for many years before. Hacking of any kind involves some level of risk, and it’s risks that I’m willing to take to become better.