Hippocrates said all diseases begin in the gut.

Previously, I've talked about fecal transplants, transferring the stool of healthy people

into the colons of patients suffering from

inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, even psychiatric problems like depression,

bipolar disorder, and alcoholism to repopulate their gut with good bacteria in hopes of improving their conditions.

What about fecal transplants for aging?

Might the Fountain of Youth be a fountain of poop?

If you give mice with accelerated aging a fecal transplant from healthy mice, they perk up and

live longer, but what about human poop?

We don't yet have human-to-human aging data, but we do have mice transplanted with

fecal matter from a centenarian.

Mice-fed poop from a 101-year-old versus poop from a 70-year-old.

Lipophousin is an age pigment that's widely used as a biomarker for aging, and lipopherson

accumulates significantly less in the brain

tissue of centenarian poop-fed mice, raising the possibility that we will one day be using

centenarian fecal matter for anti-aging purposes and to promote healthy aging.

Why bathe in the blood of virgins when you can dine on the dung of the venerable?

To be continued once human-to-human data are published.

Poop you may want to avoid is from overweight stool donors, given this case report about weight

gain after a fecal transplant.

32-year-old woman had always been of normal weight

until she received a fecal transplant from a healthy but overweight donor, her daughter.

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