Go Faster Bacteria

[MichaelW2]

Scientists have discovered a bacteria in the gut of quick marathon runners that when transferred to mice made the mice run faster.
Would you want this particular bacteria in your gut biome. Do you want it enough to ingest a stool sample from a fast runner?

 

[roadrash]

Would you want this particular bacteria in your gut biome.

NO

Do you want it enough to ingest a stool sample from a fast runner?

NO

 

[Paulus]

Scientists have discovered a bacteria in the gut of quick marathon runners that when transferred to mice made the mice run faster.
Would you want this particular bacteria in your gut biome. Do you want it enough to ingest a stool sample from a fast runner?

Really,
and No thank you.

 

[Julia9054]

You don't munch down on a big juicy turd, the bacteria are isolated in suspension and administered by enema

 

[roadrash]

Still NO....

 

[Paulus]

You don't munch down on a big juicy turd, the bacteria are isolated in suspension and administered by enema

Thats still a no from me.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Scientists have discovered a bacteria in the gut of quick marathon runners that when transferred to mice made the mice run faster.

*Checks calendar* hmmmph - must be April 1st somewhere

 

[Slick]

Never heard anything so disgusting and crazy all at the same time.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Scientists have discovered a bacteria in the gut of quick marathon runners that when transferred to mice made the mice run faster.

To the toilet

 

[classic33]

Seems to supress the immune system, but may have harmful side effects.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6188999/#bib0130

Adding,
Would it be classed as doping, and therefore illegal?

 

[MichaelW2]

But note that an understanding of any scientific result can be improved by adding the words "in mice"

 

[Seevio]

Was the bacteria transferred to the mice in an "armageddon" manner? And how much faster exactly did they run? Are we talking 2:15 marathon times or what?

 

[Globalti]

For people who you'd think more open-minded than the average citizen there's a depressingly closed mindset being demonstrated in the posts above. The idea of eating somebody's poo is misguided and straight out of an ill-informed tabloid newspaper article.

We all have thousands of benign (and occasionally malign) bacteria living in our guts and it's likely some of us already have this bacterium. I haven't read the article but I'd be willing to bet that the bacterium thrives as a consequence of a healthy lifestyle rather than causing people to become athletes.

 

[Levo-Lon]

If you eat out then you probably all ready are ingesting some , enjoy your takeaway sadly fast marathon runners dont usually work these jobs

 

[Beebo]

You don't munch down on a big juicy turd, the bacteria are isolated in suspension and administered by enema

Now you tell me.
I’ve been hiding in Mo Farah’s toilet waiting for him to leave a floater.