Woman Suffers Significant Weight Gain After Fecal Transplant

Beeftopia (1846720) writes In a case reported in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases, a woman suffering from a drug-resistant intestinal infection gained 36 pounds after receiving a fecal transplant from her overweight daughter. Previous mouse studies have shown thin mice gain weight after ingesting fecal bacteria from obese mice. The woman previously was not overweight. After the procedure, despite a medically supervised liquid protein diet and exercise regimen, the woman remained obese. Her doctor said, "She came back about a year later and complained of tremendous weight gain... She felt like a switch flipped in her body, to this day she continues to have problems... as a result I'm very careful with all our donors don't use obese people."

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Choose your food handlers wisely

[NotQuiteReal]

Only eat at places run by skinny people.

Re:Choose your food handlers wisely

[MTEK]

And only those who could give a shit.

Re:what about skinny people?

[Applehu Akbar]

So that's the definition of 'humanitarian.' I always wondered about that.

Re:what about skinny people?

[Anonymous Coward]

>It's just like a big bowel of yummy pasta.

There, fixed it for ya.

Re:what about skinny people?

[toonces33]

I am not going to take any shit from you.