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    I appreciate the sentiment. I'm doubtful you were able to find a donor better than any of the...

    I appreciate the sentiment. I'm doubtful you were able to find a donor better than any of the 1.2+ million people I screened. But if you've been following me for so long, you should know what the donor criteria are, and how to present evidence of your super-donor. Given that you haven't even...
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    Other Non-antibiotic medications leave lasting mark on gut microbiome, even years after use (Sep 2025) A hidden confounder for microbiome studies: medications used years before sample collection

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-medications-gut-microbiome-years.html https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00541-25
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    Article Trump admin releases long awaited MAHA roadmap. The new strategy stops short of surprise regulations and leaves pesticides alone (Sep 2025) The Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy Report

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/maha/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-MAHA-Strategy-WH.pdf https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/09/09/maha-commission-unveils-sweeping-strategy-make-our-children-healthy-again...
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    Causation Gut microbial production of imidazole propionate drives Parkinson’s pathologies (Sep 2025)

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63473-4
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    FMT Fecal Microbiota Transplantation by Rectal Enema Improves Short-Term Insulin Resistance in Metabolic Syndrome: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (May 2025, n=18)

    https://www.jomes.org/journal/view.html?doi=10.7570/jomes25014
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    Early development Establishment of the early gut microbiota in vaginally delivered infants: the influence of maternal gut microbiota outweighs vaginal microbiota (Aug 2025, 26 mother-infant pairs)

    https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01775-25
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    Healthcare system Incoming trump admin with RFK signals new start for FDA

    This is absolute nonsense, and indicates a severe ignorance of all the information shared on this forum. Solving the chronic disease crisis is their primary stated goal. FMT is, without a doubt, the most impactful intervention for that which currently exists, and could arguably solve the crisis...
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    Healthcare system Incoming trump admin with RFK signals new start for FDA

    Another RFK hearing with the Senate Finance Committee: https://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/the-presidents-2026-health-care-agenda In his opening statement, RFK says "The FDA is on track to approve more drugs this year than any time in history". Continued evidence that their actual...
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    Article Studies deliver new blow to cancer microbiome literature—and offer a way forward. Two analyses of microbial DNA in tumor samples aim to put controversy-riddled field back on track (Sep 2025, Micronoma)

    https://www.science.org/content/article/studies-deliver-new-blow-cancer-microbiome-literature-and-offer-way-forward I'm posting this because Rob Knight is a major figure in the microbiome world. Martin J. Blaser, M.D. was on their scientific advisory board...
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    Healthcare system Incoming trump admin with RFK signals new start for FDA

    This video was a good reminder of another possible reason Congresspeople have done nothing about this -- personal investments in the stock market (the pharmaceutical industry). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsrAZ0gnkPo
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    Oral microbiome - Streptococcus overgrowth (test results)

    It sounds like you didn't read the stickied post: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/before-you-post-or-comment-here-please-review-the-testing-page-of-the.24/
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    STICKY Before you post or comment here, please review the Testing page of the wiki to understand what these tests can and cannot do, and what kind of feedback you can expect to receive. Marketing is not allowed.

    Related thread: FMT, donor-matching, screening for specific microbes, and pre-treatment/eradication. "Killing things off" vs suppression & ecosystem restoration.
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    FMT Fecal microbiota transplantation improves bile acid malabsorption in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: results of microbiota and metabolites from two cohort studies (Sept 2025)

    https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-025-04353-y I think n=106, but they're using the word "pairs" confusingly. I don't think they gave the 24 healthy controls FMT. Donors: Doesn't say how many donors were used. Results:
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    Antibiotics Cecal microbiome transplantation without antibiotic preconditioning standardizes murine microbiomes (Aug 2025) "We find that antibiotic preconditioning reduces efficiency for uptake of CMT-specific strains. Antibiotics introduce uncontrolled variance in the resulting microbiome composition"

    https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1632210/full Another piece of evidence opposing antibiotics prior to FMT.
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    FMT Obese teens given healthy gut bacteria show lasting drop in diabetes risk (Aug 2025, n=55) Long-term health outcomes in adolescents with obesity treated with faecal microbiota transplantation: 4-year follow-up

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-obese-teens-healthy-gut-bacteria.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62752-4 New Zealand group. This is a follow-up to their "gut bugs" study...
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