Recent content by Aim for NaN

At the minimum it means he eats a lot of fat, like nuts and seeds. Type 4 (i.e. what looks like the fruit of ripe banana) is not bad. Type 3 (i.e. what looks like a cucumber) is better, but type 4 isn't bad. What might be bad with type 4 is if it is really long. Either way, you need to run tests...

I would argue donor matching to be impossible due to the complexities surrounding the whole thing. It would be more practical to focus on quality and consistency.

I couldn't say which because your post appeared deliberately private. Although I had guessed diarrhea due to the typical relationship with bile acid, I didn't want to invade in your privacy. But I also don't have the health to respond in detail, so I'll continue to keep things brief. Here are...

It may be of interest to know that microbes have a tendency to colonize certain spots along the digestive system more than other spots. For example, L. Reuteri tends to colonize around the jejunum and other areas around the stomach; Bifidobacterium tends to be scattered throughout the small...

Blaming progress is a misnomer. If progress had improved our microbiome, you would be singing to a different tune. In fact, if it weren't for progress, we probably wouldn't be talking about the microbiome at all. A better argument would have been that there wasn't enough progress in the right...

If you're basing it off the tests alone, I would argue there to be no real benefit from taking your wife's stool. In fact, I would argue your gut has a higher chance of balancing itself out from diet alone than your wife's gut, simply because it has higher amounts of the ecosystem-balancing...

People already do these things and still manage to get infections, whether bacterial or not. So, clearly, that's not how to avoid infection. Even seasonal things are the result of dormant microbes that are already inside you, which get triggered by what you expose yourself to. Immunity is often...

While the only way to know how it will look like is if you perform the tests yourself, it is often observed that the microbiome will tend towards that of the donor. So, if you insist on entertaining speculation, then test the donors' stools. Not sure about Oxalobacter, but Akkermansia is overly...

Doesn't New York have a lot of restrictions on testing stools? Do you perform tests out of state? From the looks of it, the website you have is designed in such a way that implies FMT to be a valid treatment for various diseases, of which the FDA heavily declares otherwise. Cool that you're...

Where's the part about dropping portion control and how it is relevant to the gut microbiome? I'm not sure what the emphasis on B12 is all about. I don't disagree that the gut microbiome is involved in cancer, but B12 alone won't make a difference. The commonly termed "fight or flight mode"...

I remember emailing the people involved long ago. Never heard back from them. I wouldn't trust them.

Nothing but arguments from incredulity. What was accomplished first: FMTs reaching the home or patients or convincing the government? Did the former happen for free? Stop being silly.

Yet, even you would realize that "hard to find" is not equivalent to "impossible." When aiming to produce a product for general consumption, you're either fulfilling an existing demand or you're creating demand. "What do people want?" They want everything. When people want everything, that...

An idea rejected today can be accepted after 3 to 4 generations have passed. That is normally how long it takes for society as a whole to experience some kind of reset. Of course, we won't be able to see it, since we'll be dead by then, but the usefulness of ignorance, incompetence and laziness...

I'm guessing I'm the only programmer here for others to be unable to see how this would work. Obviously, coding is not necessary to do what he did. But I never made that claim. Coding simply lets me work smarter, not harder. I am not so ignorant of how the internet works that I should be unable...