Faecal Transplants

People who live together don’t only tend to eat together but they also tend to have the same faecal bacteria; a new take on intimacy – biological friends; love me, love my bugs!

So if your own bugs have been devastated by antibiotics or flushed out by an attack of diarrhoea or changed by some local environmental shift to a more toxic ecosystem, then a dose of your partner’s could last longer in the gut and restore the deficit better than ingestion of a culture of probiotics in yoghurt. Evidence for the efficacy of natural faecal inoculates is compelling.