[totally]

What causes one bacteria to flourish in the colon? Is it a lack of other flora? Is it diet related?

Not to be crass, but I also kind of wonder what it smells like. Are there scientists who study the smells of these biological systems? Seems like that would be a high bandwidth way to gain insight into a gut.

[sjg007]

Diet and what other organisms are in your gut. So things like probiotics, antibiotics, etc can change it. C. diff has a funky unique smell and is an opportunistic organism that takes over sometimes and the best treatment when antibiotics fail is a fecal transplant!