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...
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.
The OP was correct. The collapse was probably not solely due to stopping the one imodium, but rather, possibly olive oil and another problematic dietary ingredient. This is also because the FMT donor I was using seems weak for restoring bile acid metabolism, microbial density, and clearing or...
I think the olive oil intolerance is due to the acids, because the intolerance gets worse when I'm lacking the microbes needed for bile acid metabolism (BAM), and the symptoms are very similar to eating fat without Cholestyramine when my BAM is poor.
The side effects I experience from olive oil...
You shouldn't be engaging in FMT while still ignorant on such important things. It's covered:
In the wiki:
https://humanmicrobiome.info/fmt/
https://humanmicrobiome.info/where-to-get-fmt/
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