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Hitler used FMT! So what’s new?….

20/10/2014 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

Did anyone watch the fascinating Channel 4 programme on Hitler’s hidden drug habits last night?

Hitler with his doctor Theodor Morell  Photograph Waddell Media via the Guardian
Hitler with his doctor Theodor Morell Photograph Waddell Media via the Guardian

From the mid 1930s, despite his image as a man of ‘superhuman strength and vigour’, it appears that Hitler became increasing dependent on Dr Theodor Morell, physician to the famous in 1930s Berlin. Morell (seen standing behind and to the left of Hitler above) seems to have been a pretty unattractive character. His methods were certainly unorthodox and, in the latter years some of his drug treatments were positively dangerous, but I am not sure that I would agree that he was, as the programme suggested, a quack. For a start, he used FMT….

Indeed it was his use of an early form of fecal microbiota transplant to cure Hitler’s stomach cramps (not helped by a vegetarian diet of beans mashed up to accommodate Hitler’s bad teeth) that first gained the Fuhrer’s confidence. Morrell believed that Hitler’s stomach problems were caused by bad bacteria in his gut and that the way to address it would be to introduce good bacteria (that sounds very 21st century…). The good bacteria were harvested from the healthy stools of healthy soldiers and put into capsules which were then swallowed. The capsules were called Mutaflor (still around today, now sold as a probiotic) and they appear to have done the trick for Hitler, endearing his new doctor to him in the process.

There are  innumerable other fascinating gems that emerged from the programme so do have a watch.  I will merely add that among the many other drugs used on Hitler was crystal meths in the guise of pervetin (also still around today) and that not only was it used on Hitler but it was widely used on the German population at large to keep them perky and working….

Meanwhile, for anyone interested in knowing more about FMT, takes look at the FoodsMatter site here.

 

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Chemicals, Conventional Medicine, PoliticsTag: Channel 4, crystal meths, Dr Theodor Morell, Fecal microbiota transplant, FMT, Hitler's hidden drug habits, microbiome, Mutaflor, Mutflor to counteract bad gut bacteria, Pervetin, Poo transplants

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  1. Michelle

    22/10/2014 at 08:24

    John Scott, our FMT expert, was very excited by the programme as he had not realised that Mutaflor had been in use so long ago.
    He sent us not only lots more details about how you can still use Mutaflor today, but the extremely comprehensive FAQs document he has drawn up for the Bacteriotherapy Facebook page. To read about using Mutaflor today, click here; to access his bacteriotherapy FAQs click here.

  2. Serena Macbeth

    02/11/2014 at 14:53

    The homeopaths were also looking at bowel flora in the ’30s. Dr Bach (of Rescue Remedy fame) spent some time working on the connection between certain disease states and changes in bowel health. Rather than inject healthy bacteria he made homeopathic (minute) dilutions of diferent bowel flora to encourage the body to heal itself. Hoempaths still use “Bowel Nosodes” today with very good results in many areas including tricky things like eczema.

  3. Mikay

    10/12/2014 at 16:32

    I was somewhat amused by the program. One can make a case that Hitler lost World War Two because of farting. If he hadn’t farted like an elephant in a cabbage patch, he would have never hooked up with Dr. Morrell, who I would squarely call a quack. Morrell found, quite sinisterly, that he could make Hitler dependent on his ‘treatments’ which eventually fueled Hitler into complete drug-induced madness, coinciding at the peak of the war when he would have needed a clear head the most.

    Loose Lips may sink ships, but a Loose Ass is the Coup de grâce!!!

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