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Fecal transplants date back to ancient China

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Modern science thinks it invented the poop pill, but swallowing waste is a remarkably old tradition. Ancient healers prescribed a charmingly named 'yellow soup' made of fermented feces to cure severe diarrhea, operating on the horrifyingly correct assumption that gut flora needed replacing.

Fecal transplants date back to ancient China
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