What if the main function of the immune system is not to eliminate and control other microorganisms in the body, but to farm and selectively breed them?
Yes, I wondered whether such transplants simply improve the breeding stock. If you would rely on the invasive power of microbial transplants alone, they would usually not take over. The organism actively selects for them.
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Correct, one cannot select for healthy microbes if there are no healthy microbes to select. In this way, FMT should be a more durable therapy than antibiotics. However, some people may simply be bad at selecting beneficial microbes, either due to genetics or brain damage.
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Exactly. But what do you think brain damage is, other than a regulation defect caused by genetics or the wrong microorganisms?
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