Recent content by Michael Harrop

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/10/health/pfas-pesticides-industry-influence-wellness https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/trump-pfas-sewage-farm-fertilizer

I have never heard of this, and that seems excessive. I have read that mouthwash can be harmful and unnecessary. https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/is-mouthwash-harmful-should-you-use-it-studies-on-chlorhexidine-and-al.1420/ I have read and experienced that gargling with saltwater can...

Someone mentioned using mouthwash in another thread. I've read lots of bad things about it, so I'm listing them here. Mouthwash can alter your oral microbiome and potentially damage teeth (Mar 2020, n=36) Effects of Chlorhexidine mouthwash on the oral microbiome...

If you can't find something via search, or in the wiki, feel free to make a thread about it.

This is a really absurd notion that goes against the entire point of this forum. To make evidence-based, well-informed decisions, it is mandatory that one follows the research and cites it. If you're uninterested or incapable of that, you're going to harm yourself and others, and you shouldn't...

You'll have to be content with high-quality FMT never being available then if you're unwilling to take action.

Take action to make it available: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/the-fda-and-fmt-regulation-part-2-jul-2024-humanmicrobes-org-i-met-wit.520/post-1370 Do other things that only somewhat alleviate symptoms but do not fix the underlying problem https://humanmicrobiome.info/faq/ This...

Myself and someone else here have been in contact with him and his team. When I first learned about him, it was through articles that were proclaiming how he was willing to spend millions of dollars to improve his health. That's when I first contacted his team about FMT. After seeing what he's...

Where are you getting "a quality FMT" from? That's covered in the wiki.

This one from 2019? https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/uterus-plays-role-brain-function-animal-study-shows Hysterectomy Uniquely Impacts Spatial Memory in a Rat Model: A Role for the Nonpregnant Uterus in Cognitive Processes

Wow. He just shared on Twitter that he has an autoimmune disease called Autoimmune Gastritis (AIG), and got diagnosed with hypothyroidism at 21 years old. https://x.com/bryan_johnson/status/2072069730517860385 The fact that he's been considering his own poop to be valuable instead of dangerous...

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-ovaries-job-immune-tenure-reproductive.html https://academic.oup.com/molehr/article/32/2/gaag038/8705536

Phages are covered in the wiki: https://humanmicrobiome.info/#bacteriophages-phages. Currently, they are very limited in comparison to antibiotics. But they should definitely be more heavily studied in order to eventually replace antibiotics.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pediatrics/articles/10.3389/fped.2026.1847568/full

That's a big waste of money. You're better off spending your money elsewhere. https://humanmicrobiome.info/testing/