The Microbiome: Trust Your Gut?

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Dr Chris Smith

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to treating diseases, we often think of lifestyle changes, pills and procedures. What often isn't considered is poo. But this week, the NICE guidelines - which recommend treatments for use in the NHS - were updated so people who have a recurring gut infection caused by the Clostridium difficile superbug are eligible to receive a transplant of healthy stool in a procedure called fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) - sometimes dubbed a "transpoosion" - to aid their recovery. This procedure alters the balance of bacteria living in the gut, helping to hold the bad bugs in check... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:25.4	I'd say FMT is just completely life changing and I'd 100% recommend it to anyone with recurring C. DIF.
0:35.0	The power of the Transpusion.
0:38.0	How scientists are transplanting microbes from the bowel of one person to another to cure diseases. We delve into the
0:44.9	world of the human microbiome. The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by
0:50.0	UKfast.co.co. UK. When it comes to treating diseases we often think of lifestyle changes, pills and procedures.
1:07.0	What often isn't considered is poo.
1:11.0	But this week the nice guidelines which recommend treatments for use in the NHS were updated so people who have a recurring gut infection caused by the Clostridium difficile superbug are eligible to receive a transplant of healthy stool,
1:25.9	sometimes dubbed a transpusion to aid their recovery. This procedure alters the balance of bacteria living in the gut, helping us to hold the
1:34.9	bag of bugs in check and halt the disease. So, on microbes, the new medication, indeed researchers are now pursuing similar avenues to see if
1:45.4	altering gut microbes can treat other diseases too. This week I'm taking a look
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