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Faecal microbial transplants (FMT), which involve transferring stool samples from a healthy gut to someone else’s colon, have yielded some impressive medical results in the past.

Researchers have seen promising signs of its ability to address irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, and even early Parkinson’s (though this benefit only seemed to be short-lived) and other neurological issues.

It has a 90% success rate for treating C.diff, a bacterium related to diarrhoea, the BBC reported.

But a

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