The fecal diaries

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Lon

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That's the name of the new TV Series that I am trying to sell. In view of all the past and present shows dealing with Forensics I thought a show where the hero is a Microbiologist who solves crimes by examining not bones, blood, DNA etc. but just crimes where the only thing left is a pile of feces.;)
 

Entirely suitable given that in the next decade we will be hearing more and more about the exceedingly important role of our microbiome. Indeed one most promising new treatment strategies for a wide array of pathologies will be the fecal transplant

The microbiome is big news in health this year. Fortune Magazine has declared 2015 The Year of the Microbiome, and there is significant research going on to fully understand its complex relationship to health and disease, notably the multimillion-dollar five-year Human Microbiome Project.


But what is is? And why is getting so much attention?


We have more bacteria in our body than we do human cells, up to ten times more. Most of them are in our intestines; we each have literally trillions of bacteria and fungi living in there. Scientists are increasingly realising the importance to our health of this human ecosystem.


Our microbiome is essential for human development, immunity and nutrition. It helps to digest our food, regulate our immune system, protect against other disease-causing bacteria, and produce several vitamins including B vitamins.


However, imbalance in your microbiome can contribute to chronic illnesses of the gastrointestinal system such as IBS and Crohn’s disease. It may influence your susceptibility to infectious disease, and certain collections of microbes may determine how you respond to drug treatments.
 

Lon said:
That's the name of the new TV Series that I am trying to sell. In view of all the past and present shows dealing with Forensics I thought a show where the hero is a Microbiologist who solves crimes by examining not bones, blood, DNA etc. but just crimes where the only thing left is a pile of feces.;)
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Now that would be some crappy television.
 
I could tell a story about feces and using it for DNA analysis, but it's too close to dinner time.
 
Stomach contents have been used for years in forensic determination of the deceased's recent history. That's not too far up the "canal" from feces.
If you want feces stories, I could tell a few. I've spent the past 42 years watching and working in other people's poop. In my younger days, it was nothing unusual to be standing in raw sewage watching the undigested corn and lettuce running between your legs. Of course, in that same stream are "whte mice" (used tampons), used condoms, tampon inserters, and lots of "chunkey chocolates". When putting new wastewater treatment plants on line, I like to invite local 5th - 8th graders to take a tour. When they see the raw sewage coming in a headworks and the clean water leaving the facility, it's an excellent educational experience. As a society, we've become "soft" and take so much for granted. When we turn on a faucet, we assume clean drinking water will "magically" appear. And, when we flush the toilet, those things we don't like to discuss magically disappear. Most don't give a second thought to what happens between those two points.
 
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