Could faecal transplants be the next big thing in treating mood disorders? Professor Gordon Parker thinks so
The leading psychiatrist has spent five decades working with bipolar patients. One tried an FMT and his response was 'wow'.
Professor Gordon Parker believes medicine is on the brink of a breakthrough in treating bipolar disorder and other mood disorders using faecal microbiota transplants.
One of Australia’s best known psychiatrists, he has written A Gut Mood Solution, drawing together the medical literature, case studies and documenting one woman’s resolution of her bipolar symptoms after faecal microbiota transplant (FMT).
In this extract, he argues ‘Jane’ is patient zero in what he believes could become a medical paradigm shift.
Jane, now aged 42, developed depression in midÂ-adolescence and dropped out of school and much of life.
