Recent content by Michael Harrop

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/health/fda-drug-unit-chief.html

https://www.jognn.org/article/S0884-2175(25)00271-0/abstract The percent of "willing" in this study is generally around 60%.

There was a Senate hearing scheduled today for Casey Means: POSTPONED: Hearing title Nomination of Casey Means to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service and Surgeon General of the Public Health Service...

Certain strains of it. Are there specific human-sourced strains that people use for "SIBO yogurt"? You clearly didn't read and understand the citation. That's really low-quality evidence. But sure, the potential benefits likely outweigh the risks for "L.Reuteri and L.Gasseri yogurt".

Of course. But a likely reason is that they're all using low-quality donors, so of course there's more heterogeneity. The wiki covers this: https://humanmicrobiome.info/fmt/#screening

Citation needed. This is not the simple task widely claimed. See the probiotic guide: https://humanmicrobiome.info/probiotic-guide/#fermenting-your-own-probiotics-at-home This is silly. No probiotic comes close to FMT. No. The onus of proof is on the person making the claims. Given that SIBO...

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-gluten-sensitivity-linked-gutbrain-interaction.html https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01533-8/abstract

Comment from a previous thread: Another user mentioned that this should be common sense, which I agree with, and have been surprised at the amount of people arguing against it. Personally I would think it would also be common sense for the universities doing FMT studies and other microbiome...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2019.00002/full An important paper to have submitted here. Unfortunately, the authors of this review didn't bother to attempt to find a super-donor for their FMT trial...

https://the-peel.com/article/1723/ This doesn't seem to be a real story. See their "about" page: https://the-peel.com/about/ Their bluesky says "on the mission to deliver news before it happens".

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-scientists-track-donor-bacteria-fecal.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02164-8

The wiki has a section on them: https://humanmicrobiome.info/where-to-get-fmt/#ippm-clinic No, I would not use them.

Extremely unlikely. This is why I've spent the past 10 years warning people about using low-quality donors, and the poor donor screening & selection at hospitals, clinical trials, and stool banks.

In general, it seems like the only way to recover from a bad FMT is to do FMT from a better donor. Where did you get the FMT? From a hospital, using their donor? They did it for IBS? Was it part of a clinical trial?

Yes, I think Fedex is the easiest option.