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. Photo: Michelle Parker.

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).