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They discuss how the ancient practice of fecal transplants has cured many cases of Clostridium difficile colitis, a potentially fatal disease acquired in hospitals.\n\nMartie Whittekin talks about harnessing the power of good bacteria for better health in her book, \"The Probiotic Cure\"\n\nCheck out her other book, \"Natural Alternatives to Nexium, Maalox, Tagament, Prilosec & Other Acid Blockers\"\n\n\u2192 Want to learn everything you need to manage & reverse your osteoporosis\/osteopenia naturally in one inspiring weekend with Dr. Brown? Join our bone health retreat & workshop! 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Comment below and she may address them in a future video!\n\nCheck out our website! \u2192 http:\/\/ www.betterbones.com\n\nWant to connect with Better Bones on social media?\nLike on Facebook \u2192 http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/betterbonesbetterbody\n\u200bFollow on Twitter \u2192 http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/drsusanbrown\n\u200bFollow our Instagram \u2192 http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/betterbonesbetterbody\n\u200bCheck out our Pinterest \u2192 http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/betterbonesbetterbody\n\n#osteoporosis #osteopenia #bonemass #bonehealth #weightandbonemass #womenshealth #drsusanbrown #betterbonesbetterbody #preventosteoporosis\nExercise for bone health: patreon.com\/betterbones\n\nTranscription:\nhi everybody dr. Susan brown director of\nthe Center for better bones you know I'm\nreally glad that you're with us today\nbecause today I'm going to introduce a\nwhole new series of videos and these\nseries consider the topic of ancient\nscience meeting modern science as many\nof you know my first profession was and\nis as an anthropologist\nwhile I work as a nutrition I was first\ntrained as an anthropologist and one of\nthe fascinating things when you look\naround the world and when you look\nthrough time you see that ancient\ncultures had a great deal of wisdom\nabout life about nutrition about\nmedicine and in this series we're going\nto look at ancient science some of the\nthings they were saying and how they're\nnow being validated by modern science\none of the first places I saw this was\nwith meditation and the value of\nmeditation many years ago I got to study\nwith Maharshi Mahesh Yogi the founder of\nTM and he really brought to America a\ngreat scientific focus on meditation and\nthey have done thousands of studies\nshowing that meditation can affect our\nblood pressure it can affect our level\nof happiness it can affect our immune\nsystem it can affect our DHEA level\nthousands of studies showing the value\nof meditation we now know in the field\nof nutrition all of us have heard of\ntumeric as a wonderful herb a wonderful\nfood that has so many capacities to\nboost immunity reduce inflammation\ncountless studies on torque and again\nthis was an ancient food item in ancient\nherb from the ancient system of India\nactually traditional Chinese medicine\nhas volumes of knowledge and what we're\nfinding today is that much of this\nancient what we would call wisdom based\nknowledge is now being validated by\nmodern science and today I'm really\ndelighted that we have with us an expert\nin nutrition and an expert in the\ninternal ecology of our body\nthis is Marty Wiggin marty is a\nnutritionist we've been colleagues for\ndecades now and it's really so much fun\nto introduce her again to you\njust two great books one on probiotics\nand one actually on this whole issue of\nproton pump inhibitors today we're going\nto kind of focus on this issue of the\ninternal ecology of the gut and the\ntopic we're going to talk about is this\nfascinating topic of fecal transplants\nthese ancient cultures use the system of\nputting actually fecal material from one\nanimal or one human into another animal\nor another human and they saw great\nhealing results now this is an example\nof something we would say it's very\nstrange and yet modern sciences has\nvalidated that so Marty welcome to the\nshow well thank you very much for\ninviting me now Marty tell us a bit\nabout the a little bit about the\nhistorical use of this strange concept\nof fecal transplants and then some of\nthe modern uses of it and why maybe you\ncan help people see why I'm so\nfascinated with this well going back to\nthe fourth century in China the first\nrecorded that we know about they have a\nremedy called\nyellow soup this is an oral way of\ntaking the fecal contents of either a\nhealthy person or an animal making it\ninto a soup and then having a very ill\nperson drinking well no is there a","thumbnailUrl":["https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/IvY-LaOpocE\/default.jpg","https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/IvY-LaOpocE\/mqdefault.jpg","https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/IvY-LaOpocE\/hqdefault.jpg","https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/IvY-LaOpocE\/sddefault.jpg","https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/IvY-LaOpocE\/maxresdefault.jpg"],"uploadDate":"2016-11-30T20:45:31+00:00","duration":"PT10M28S","embedUrl":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IvY-LaOpocE","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCm6Zry9uGdrZpm05sQLIxMw#Organization","url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCm6Zry9uGdrZpm05sQLIxMw","name":"Dr. Susan E. 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Now, this is big news! And it\u2019s interesting because it reminds us of the essential and varied roles our microbiome (the \u201cgood bacteria\u201d we carry with us) plays in human health.Curing of Clostridium difficile in humans is amazing, but it could be just the beginning. Animal studies have been pushing the envelope on just what we can \u201cimport\u201d from a fecal transplant.\u00a0 For example, fecal microbiota from a fat mouse transplanted into a thin mouse resulted in the skinny mouse gaining weight. 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