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    Gezonde Darmflora WARNING: Gezonde Darmflora / Marco Kleijn – Comprehensive Review & Scam Alert

    This is not a remotely valid approach. Most of the people recommending specific providers and claiming good results from them are very obviously paid or incentivized to do so. That's pretty dishonest. Those are not private medical information, especially when the donor is anonymous. Human...
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    Gezonde Darmflora WARNING: Gezonde Darmflora / Marco Kleijn – Comprehensive Review & Scam Alert

    Manufacturing details are trivial compared to donor quality. Being able to trust that the donor is safe and will not make you worse is the most important factor. So the details that show Gezonde Darmflora is an untrustworthy source are the most concerning. Irrelevant. They achieve decent...
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    Gezonde Darmflora WARNING: Gezonde Darmflora / Marco Kleijn – Comprehensive Review & Scam Alert

    Some of this I agree with, and is already listed in the wiki: https://humanmicrobiome.info/where-to-get-fmt/#gezonde-darmflora 1. The reviews - Yes, they don't seem real. 2. Manufacturing flaws - I disagree that this is the most concerning. I agree that blending is not ideal, but it is widely...
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    Study Microplastic pollution induces algae blooms in experimental ponds but bioplastics are less harmful (Jan 2026)

    https://today.ucsd.edu/story/plastic-pollution-promotes-hazardous-water-conditions-new-study-finds https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-025-00014-6
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    Study More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, massive study finds (Feb 2026) Global and regional cancer burden attributable to modifiable risk factors to inform prevention

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00333-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04219-7 By "infections", they're referring to HPV https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00128-4
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    Healthcare system Incoming trump admin with RFK signals new start for FDA

    Another hearing. Senate HELP Committee and NIH's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Modernizing the National Institutes of Health: Faster Discoveries, More Cures https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/modernizing-the-national-institutes-of-health-faster-discoveries-more-cures They're all aware of an existing...
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    Other Gut Bacteria Can Inject Proteins Into Human Cells (Jan 2026) Effector–host interactome map links type III secretion systems in healthy gut microbiomes to immune modulation

    https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-gut-bacteria-can-inject-proteins-into-human-cells/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02241-y
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    Article A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells (Feb 2026, PFAS)

    https://apnews.com/article/pfas-wells-contamination-forever-chemicals-water-b132294aca85d569926dbf47c0d02355
  9. Michael Harrop

    Is a lot of probiotics the same as FMT? Anyone try VSL 3? I’m trying a high dose (around 230 billion CFU daily)

    So what are you doing to help make safe & effective donors available? I see lots of people making statements like that about how bad off they are and how badly they need FMT, yet virtually 100% of them are completely unwilling to lift a finger to help themselves. Most of them use whatever bad...
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    FMT Fecal transplant capsules show promising results in clinical trials for multiple types of cancer (Jan 2026, n=20) Fecal microbiota transplantation plus immunotherapy in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: the phase 1 PERFORM trial

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-fecal-transplant-capsules-results-clinical.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04183-8 The article also covers this study: Fecal microbiota transplantation plus immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer and melanoma: the phase 2...
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    FMT Evaluation of the efficacy of inactivated fecal transplants against Clostridioides difficile: an in vitro study (Jan 2026) "Inhibition of CD growth was observed exclusively in samples containing live bacteria"

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11274-025-04767-z Another study showing live bacteria are required for therapeutic effect.
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    FMT Mechanistic insights into FMT for the treatment of ulcerative colitis: analysis of the STOP-Colitis trial (Jan 2026, n=30) "Colonic FMT was superior to nasogastric delivery - 75% clinical response vs 25%"

    https://academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjag006/8441229 Not much info on the donors, so it seems to be the standard/poor criteria.
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