Welcome to another edition of Cool Facts.

This cool fact is about how saving your poop could save your microbiome.

You probably by now figured out that eating glyphosate soaked, modern diets, and taking antibiotics

and eating cows the antibiotics might mess up your gut bacteria.

And over the last couple decades, we've had much bigger problems than ever before, so

that's some of the links to type 2 diabetes, allergies, digestive issues, asthma, and scientists

keep looking for ways to fix it.

And we've made some progress with prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics.

But lately we've talked about rewilding the human microbiome.

And this is really a topic of hot debate for medical, ethical, and evolutionary perspectives.

And the reason that this research makes my inner child happy is that about 10 years ago,

I said, what would happen if I had perfect poop from earlier in my life before I ever

took antibiotics?

And I just had it in the freezer, called a poopsicle.

And of course, then I could reintroduce it after I had antibiotics.

Wouldn't that be smart?

Well, it turns out Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital are proposing

now that you bank samples of your own gut microbiota, but they don't say poop.

I don't know why.

And they say, do it when you're young and healthy for use later in life.

They're proposing this because using fecal donor transplants for different conditions gets

mixed results.

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