Foecal matter virus and cure for diabetics

Researchers are working if the Virus from focal matter would work against weight gain and type 2 diabetics.

In a trial of obese mice,a team of researchers from Copenhagen has discovered that transplanting virus from the stool of a thin mice have great benefits.

 It is known that transplanting virus from the stool of healthy donors have become a common method of treating bacterium Clostridioides defficile, which causes a serious type of diarrhoea in human.

Now researchers are working if same method of treatment of obese mice would help treat type 2 diabetes.

A senior author of the study, Professor Dennis sandris Nielsen,with Special Responsibilities (MSO) from the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Food Science, said: “When we transmit virus particles from the feces of lean mice to obese ones, the obese mice put on significantly less weight compared to those that do not receive transplanted feces.”

They also discovered that the stool transplant helped protect the rodents from developing glucose intolerance.

Another author of the research work,PhD student Torben Sølbeck Rasmussen, said: “In the obese mice on high fat diet, that didn’t receive the virus transplant, we observed decreased glucose tolerance, which is a precursor of diabetes.

“Thus, we have influenced the gut microbiome in such a way that the mice with unhealthy lifestyles do not develop some of the common diseases triggered by poor diet.”

However, even if findings is positive, the approach will only work when a change in diet is also introduced,they claimed.

As previous studies link imbalance diet to type 2 diabetes,Professor Nielson said: “If one eats poorly for long enough, they risk creating an imbalance in their intestinal tract. Here, we have a means of recuperating balance by shooting missing virus particles back into the system.”

This trial involved extracting faeces from mice who had been fed a standard low-fat diet over a period of time.

It has been published in gut journal.