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I wrote a parody remix of a psychological analysis journal once that talks about analyst using feces as part of their somatic intuition.Life imitates art. https://t.co/gbXYjnlJcL
There is a line of reasoning that you can sample a patient's feces and after a period of time slowly adapt your own experiences by affecting how the gut microbiota in your own gut ecosystem adapt. I speculated Freud's ideas of anxiety and constipation were intrinsically linked.
Sometimes my jokes come true."depression and anxiety symptoms may be improved by FMT regardless of gastrointestinal symptom change in patients with IBS, FDr and FC, and the increase of microbiota diversity may help to improve patient's mood."https://t.co/y01CChqGAc
An open label study means"A type of study in which both the health providers and the patients are aware of the drug or treatment being given."https://t.co/68MVnZSdE0So there was no double blind in this FMT.
I bet in the 1900s, it would have been perfectly within moral standards to slip feces into people's drinking water and do a proper double-blind trial.Horrific."Still others, DeBello says, were fed hepatitis-contaminated feces."https://t.co/dWHNO7umGI