SYSK Selects: Fecal Transplants: You Gonna Drink That Poop?

Stuff You Should Know

• Episode: SYSK Selects: Fecal Transplants: You Gonna Drink That Poop?
• Website: Stuff You Should Know
• Feed URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-should-know.rss
• Duration: 00:39:02
• Published: 2017-09-23 15:47

In this week's SYSK Select episode, there's an emerging field in health care called medical ecology that's concerned with understanding how the 100 trillion microbes living inside us keep us healthy. The field's first breakthrough is the fecal transplant, taking poop from a healthy person and putting it into the gut of a sick person. It's a real thing and it actually works. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com