[ExI] diets

[William Flynn Wallace]

Yeah, and people and mice are also very close.  I think they are the
closest relatives we have besides the apes.

The FDA should allow far more experimental uses of new drugs and
procedures.  Europe is far ahead of us there. There should be a black
market for drugs available there and not here.  I think you can get just
about anything you want in Tijuana and Juarez.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 4:37 PM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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