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    FMT Preliminary Results From a Multicenter, Randomized Trial Using Fecal Microbiota Transplantation to Induce Remission in Patients With Mild-to-Moderate Crohn's Disease (Jun 2025, n=34) Terminated early due to futility.

    https://journals.lww.com/ajg/fulltext/2025/06000/preliminary_results_from_a_multicenter,_randomized.24.aspx The usual poor donor criteria. Sometimes low-quality donors turn out worse than other times.
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    Study Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles; mostly from the plastic paint on the caps (May 2025) Microplastic contaminations in a set of beverages sold in France

    https://phys.org/news/2025-06-glass-bottles-microplastics-plastic.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889157525005344
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    Causation Causal link between gut microbiota and obsessive-compulsive disorder: A two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis (Mar 2025)

    https://www.psypost.org/gut-bacteria-may-play-a-causal-role-in-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-study-suggests/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032725003167
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    FMT Microbiota Therapeutics Program (MTP) at the University of Minnesota (Jun 2025, UMN) Donor-centric administration of the stool donor program is vital to its feasibility and patient safety

    Do you have a really bad memory? We've discussed this before, and I've repeatedly written about it on the blog and forum. Your query should also be obviously erroneous to most people, so perhaps your memory is not the issue. 1. None of my donors have ever failed a test. Testing them once is not...
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    Aging Causal Analysis Between Gut Microbes, Aging Indicator, and Age-Related Disease, Involving the Discovery and Validation of Biomarkers (Apr 2025) "Gut microbiota a potential risk factor for 14 age-related diseases. Exhibit biomarker properties for disease prediction"

    https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/06/evidence-of-causation-in-human-data-on-the-gut-microbiome-and-age-related-conditions/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acel.70057
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    FMT Microbiota Therapeutics Program (MTP) at the University of Minnesota (Jun 2025, UMN) Donor-centric administration of the stool donor program is vital to its feasibility and patient safety

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2025.2508950 UMN GMP stool bank provides insights from their and other companies' experiences. UMN appears to have some of the worst donors that exist anywhere. Interestingly, they mention relevant info about the donor recruitment, payment...
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    Healthcare system Incoming trump admin with RFK signals new start for FDA

    I don't think that's correct. You shouldn't need huge groups of people with FMT success stories. There's a huge body of scientific evidence supporting the gut microbiome and FMT, which should be enough to get the support of the majority of people in the chronic disease communities. It's been...
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    Other H. Pylori bacteria that causes stomach ulcers may protect the brain from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s (Jun 2025) Helicobacter pylori CagA protein is a potent and broad-spectrum amyloid inhibitor

    https://theconversation.com/alzheimers-bacteria-that-cause-stomach-ulcers-may-protect-the-brain-our-new-research-indicates-259018 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads7525
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    Discussion Feel free to provide feedback for a new logo

    I saw an article that said ChatGPT is still the best at creating images. So I gave it various prompts, which resulted in these mockups, but I'm not a huge fan of any of them: I prompted it to "Make the head a petri dish that looks like a speech bubble", but it had trouble doing that. I like...
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    Healthcare system Incoming trump admin with RFK signals new start for FDA

    There is no one person whom people should just randomly contact. You need to have a single coherent message and request. That's why petitions are used. You would need one letter/petition, similar to this. But 10 anonymous votes on that post is nothing. An actual petition that people sign with...
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    Article Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson reveals surprising health battle and how he fought back (Jun 2025) "digestive issues linked to prior courses of antibiotics"

    https://archive.ph/MoK5H https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1321180-dwayne-johnson-reveals-shocking-battle-with-years-of-health-problems Interesting article with some important info and some pseudoscience. The first part is alarmingly common, and a major root cause of the chronic disease...
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    dzsqualala cures PSSD with DIY FMT from brother (Post-SSRI Sexual Disorder, fecal microbiota transplant, 2023)

    That is covered in the wiki: https://humanmicrobiome.info/fmt/ The biggest problem most people have is finding a safe and effective donor. I've been trying to solve that problem, and here is the current status...
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    Blog The FDA and FMT regulation, part 2. (Jul 2024, HumanMicrobes.org) I met with the FDA. Here's what I shared with them, and their response.

    Thanks for the info. A few thoughts: I have contacted dozens of similar people. They do not respond. My health is not good enough to go on podcasts. A person with his reputation is unlikely to do something risky like bring on someone like me (a patient with no formal education, who has been...
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