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Sep 23 2017

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

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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.

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Chuck and Josh dive into the surprisingly fascinating world of fecal transplants in this SYSK Selects episode, exploring an emerging field called medical ecology that studies how the trillions of microbes living inside us keep us healthy. Despite the inevitable poop jokes, they cover the serious medical science behind this cutting-edge procedure and how it's helping people with real health problems. It's a perfect blend of Stuff You Should Know's signature humor with genuinely important medical breakthroughs that might just change how we think about our gut health.


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