The Future of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

Fecal microbiota transplantation is currently also being used to treat ulcerative colitis and other gastrointestinal conditions. In patients he cured from C-diff infections who had other diseases, such as Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis, experienced decreased severity in these symptoms of their diseases outside of the C-diff infection after transplant. Currently, there are many clinical trials being done to test these correlative observations. Join us soon for our second podcast on the microbiome with Dr. Martin Kriegal, a rheumatologist here at Yale.