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Originally Posted by MauiKai
Being chronically ill myself I get what you're saying. As I said further up post, I would not do this for weight loss. Other health reasons, perhaps, if it were the way to go.
I suppose it's a matter of perspective. I also wouldn't consider it, if I had "only" 30 or even 100 lbs to lose. But at my highest weight, I was more than 250 lbs overweight and had been trying to lose weight and mostly failing since kindergarten. I was also in catastrophic health failure, and essentially house bound.
I began researching wls, but found the risks unacceptable. I was left trying to dig myself out of a very deep well with a teaspoon.
If a poop transplant would allow me to trade that teaspoon for a shovel (or even a tablespoon), I would have to consider it seriously.
I used to be VERY opposed to low-carb diets. When my doctor recommended I try low-carb, I was skeptical and surprised (he was the first doctor I'd ever had who supported the idea). Turns out, only low-carb controls my hunger to the point that weight loss. I sure wish I'd discovered this as a teenager rather than after 30 plus years of high carb habits. Ironically, I was eating "healthfully" but fruit and whole grains still fed the insatiable hunger.
If a poop transplant at age 5 or 9 or 14 or 21 would have prevented me from becoming 250 lbs overweight, chronically ill, and disabled, it would have been ickiness well spent.
I've certainly done riskier things (with my doctor's support) out of desperation.
In 8th grade, at 13 or 14, my pediatrician prescribed amphetamine-type diet pills (I weighed 225 lbs, and lost 70).
In the scheme of things, a poop transplant would have been far safer. Certainly, if it does prove effective, I hope it would be used before stimulant diet pills and wls.
I firmly believe in the least restrictive, least invasive treatment that is effective.