On serious note, mostly have followed this over years from weight loss literature, wonder if it will be applied in reverse, find the most efficient gut flora and get transplantees to hold on to calorise more efficiently.
I often feel very fortunate to have had no mental health problems or struggles in my life, especially as I see depression and anxiety take hold in more and more of my friends in my 20s and 30s and for those who've tried literally everything else to no success I wonder what it would be like if I could be a gut microbiome donor to them. There have been studies showing reversal of mental health disorders after stool transplants. Feels like if your mental health is absolute garbage and you struggle with suicidality that rolling the dice on this couldn't get worse only better or do nothing.
We've had one in Australia for a few years now!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/first-public-poo-bank...