Can a Poo Transplant a Day Really Keep the Doctor Away?

In a world first, two Australians with bipolar have had poo transplants, their symptoms improved, and their cases written up in peer-reviewed journals.One of us (Parker) treated the second of these patients with so-called faecal microbiota transplantation, and published his case study in recent weeks. The other (Green) is part of a team recruiting people with depression to a poo transplant clinical trial.We’d be the first to admit it’s early days for this type of treatment for bipola