I believe the best procedure is actually sticking it in your nose.

(They run a tube through your nose, down your throat, through the stomach to the top of the intestines, and introduce the bacterial slurry there.)

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giarc 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's a fairly invasive way of doing it. It can be given through pills now. https://www.lhscri.ca/news/innovative-poop-pills-show-promis...

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throw310822 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Makes you wonder how hard would it be to just put it in a swallowable capsule that dissolves only in the upper intestine.

Also, "fecal transplant" is marketable only to weirdos. "Probiotic infusion" would work better.

For those who want to gain some artistic talent, there's this (but is expensive):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_Shit

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rincebrain 4 hours ago | parent [-]

From my understanding, the problem is volume.

You want to land a substantial amount of, ahem, shit in there, since don't just want it to colonize one portion of the gut, and it's got quite a lot of competition.

So you would be talking a truly astonishing number of pills, I think, to compare to the volume you can manage with a tube.

WP suggests that it's about 100g (or 100000mg) of actual feces then mixed in a larger volume of saline or milk, and you'd probably need to have additional volume for assumed losses and whatever coating you think would work.

That is a _huge_ amount to put in pills.

	▲	throw310822 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Good point, but shit seems to be made of a lot of stuff- ~75% water, undigested food and fiber, fats, inorganic matter... Bacteria seem to be about ~30% of the dry weight. So of those 100 grams, you'd get maybe 7/8 grams of bacteria? If so, these could possibly be delivered by a number of small capsules taken in the course of several days.

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someguyiguess 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Pretty sure there’s a shorter path to the top of the intestines than through the nose but I’m no Biologist.

	▲	tyre 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If you’re implying it is through the rectum, you’ve definitely got some bio to brush up on. The small intestine alone is >20ft long.
	▲	dacops 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There really isn't. From the mouth is basically the same distance and it contains teeth and a tongue. Through the rectum is much much much farther through meters of intestine. Through the skin creates a surgical hole that's going to be difficult to keep sterile. The shortest safe path is via the nostril.