[ExI] diets

[Dave Sill]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 3:55 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Fat mice:  if you put some of their gut flora into a normal mouse, you get
> a mouse that gets fat.  If you reverse that you get a fat mouse that loses
> weight.  This has to come to people eventually and weight problems will be
> a thing of the past.
>

Mouse studies are great, but people and mice are different in lots of ways.

Fecal transplants are a thing, but they're not recognized/approved by the
FDA, so they're hard to get in the U.S.

-Dave
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