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Old 04-26-2013, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Cantwaittoarrive View Post
Not sure where you got your information but the prep for a colonoscopy is to clean out the waste material not the bacteria and even if you religiously follow all of the instructions for the prep you would still have small amounts of waste and certainly still have your bacteria.
I got the impression that the bacteria is in the waste material. That's why there was a doctor who did fecal transplants for people who didn't have enough of the right bacteria. And there are people who regularly take probiotic supplements because, supposedly, they don't have enough good bacteria. So I thought it might be a problem for some people to reestablish their full measure of gut flora.