YOU’VE heard of sperm banks and blood banks – but what about stool banks?
“Contrary to popular belief, stool has no waste in it – it’s a mass of good bacteria,” says Prof Borody, who does one to six transplants a week in his Five Dock clinic.
“The incoming bacteria are capable of killing bad bacteria and recolonising your gut, restoring your body’s balance and leading to a resolution of your symptoms.”
While it might sound gross, the results speak for themselves. Prof Borody has had people flying in from as far afield as Paris to undergo stool transplants in his surgery.
Many of his patients are C. diff sufferers who have been plagued with recurrent for years, but are cured within days. Read more here