They’ve Discovered Something That Might Cure Obesity. But It’s Seriously Gross.
The brown slurry is piped through tubes into the colon, or through the nose into the stomach. There’s even a possibility that it soon becomes available in pill form. A fecal transplant, also known as fecal biotherapy, involves the transfer of saline-diluted fecal matter from a donor to a recipient’s gut through an enema or catheter. Before you make judgments as to who would ever want to have someone else’s poop shoved up their rectum, though, you should consider the near-miraculous effects of the procedure.