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In Search Of A Healthy Gut, One Man Turned To An Extreme DIY Fecal Transplant

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Josiah Zayner writes: Arielle Duhaime-Ross at The Verge followed Dr. Josiah Zayner, a former Scientist at NASA turned BioHacker, as he attempted the first ever full-body microbiome transplant. She writes "Over the course of the next four days, Zayner would attempt to eradicate the trillions of microbes that lived on and inside his body -- organisms that helped him digest food, produce vitamins and enzymes, and protected his body from other, more dangerous bacteria. Ruthlessly and methodically, he would try to render himself into a biological blank slate. Then, he would inoculate himself with a friend's microbes -- a procedure he refers to as a 'microbiome transplant.'".pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=In+Search+Of+A+Healthy+Gut%2C+One+Man+Turned+To+An+Extreme+DIY+Fecal+Transplant%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1W8Hx2Z"img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F16%2F05%2F04%2F2136201%2Fin-search-of-a-healthy-gut-one-man-turned-to-an-extreme-diy-fecal-transplant%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/05/04/2136201/in-search-of-a-healthy-gut-one-man-turned-to-an-extreme-diy-fecal-transplant?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/05/04/2136201/in-search-of-a-healthy-gut-one-man-turned-to-an-extreme-diy-fecal-transplant?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/pDPByZRUJ5s" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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