Fucking awesome!!! I hope they get the funding they need for the next round of testing.
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Could this mean that fecal transplants are generally useful? The mechanism it proposes is that microbial diversity helps with autism symptoms. Does the helping peter out when a person reaches typical microbial diversity, or could somebody with typical microbial diversity reap some benefits by increasing it from there? How far is a typical person from the theoretical peak microbial diversity where they have a population of pretty much every microbe that's in somebody's gut?
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