Pills Made out of Human Feces as Solution to 'Fat' Problem?

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Efforts to unravel secrets behind successful human’s weight loss continue to become an adventure subject that populates the minds becomes the testing subject of researchers. Starting from acupuncture to gym membership, there seems to be no easy way to quickly attain ideal body weight as patience is deemed important during those processes. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital intend to introduce a new unusual method expected to successfully act as an agent inside our body fighting obesity.

NYDailyNews shares earlier today that these researchers led by assistant professor and clinical researcher Elaine Yu are freeze-drying human feces from donors that are considered healthily skinny and have them encapsulated into pills which later this month will be tested on carefully selected and physically screened individuals with obesity problems.

The impending experiment aims to unravel the truth as to whether or not replacement of a person’s intestinal microbes with a leaner donor’s excrement could provide a solution to people with ‘obesity and insulin sensitivity’.

"The pills are odorless, tasteless and double-encapsulated to ensure they will not release until they reach the right location in the large intestine," Dr. Yu told the NYDailyNews.

Those who have been chosen as the subject for ‘poop pill’ testing are given weekly poop pills for six weeks with their bodily condition continuously being monitored every three, six and twelve months. The participants are allowed to remain on their natural eating and health habits during experimentation.

Excrement from leaner donors are expected to allow for the intestines of the obese subjects to make several adjustment that could help spur the rapid break down of food. According to RussiaToday, it is generally accepted that ‘thin people have different gastrointestinal bacteria or microbes which determines how they break down food’.

Thesun.co.uk explained that such confidence and hopefulness placed on the development of this ‘rare and unique’ experimentation was based on the premise that the 2013 study conducted on a group of mice where gut microbes from human excrement were being used to determine its effectiveness in causing any blatant change in their body weight.

Scientists believe that gut microbes play a role in regulating human metabolism. The results were remarkable as the obese mice became leaner and the lean ones remained on their body weight.

Despite worldwide glorification and high expectation over the imminent test done, leading researcher Yu remains unsure “what the results of this trial will be.”

"I don't want to feed any frenzy of people jumping on this bandwagon. DIY experiments make me very nervous, as a physician and as a researcher,” she stated as cited in Sciencealert.