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NEW - Poop Pills: Why Your Cancer Treatment Can Use a Stranger's Bacteria
Poop pills could save your life, but first you need a complete flush. You're prepping for treatment. Drinking the same bowel prep solution people drink before colonoscopies. You're clearing out your native microbiome. Making room. Tomorrow you'll sit in the clinic on an empty stomach and swallow donor bacteria packaged in capsules. Thirty-five pills. One hour. Your cancer is advanced. Your immunotherapy has been struggling. Your gut went from healthy ecosystem to diseased, inflammatory wreck when cancer became chronic. The bacteria you need don't live there anymore.
The donor stool gets…
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