Hashtag Health

Can one man's waste be another's... treasure? And by treasure we mean medical treatment. Modern medicine has evolved quite a bit from what it used to be hundreds of years ago... but as it turns out, to treat certain aggressive gastrointestinal diseases (ie c difficile infections) we may have to revert to the ancient technique of ingesting fecal matter. In this episode, we chat with gastroenterologist Dr. Karim Qumosani and a chronic fatigue syndrome patient about fecal microbiota transplants.