Recent content by Michael Harrop

This is irrelevant and a red herring. One can review the processes being done at labs, hospitals, and home environments, and clearly see that there is nothing vital that must be done in a lab or hospital setting to safely and efficaciously process poop for FMT. This is a ridiculous thing to...

Those statements don't reflect that you have reviewed the wiki, because those are poorly informed notions. You don't need a home lab or professional equipment to prepare FMT in a safe and anaerobic manner. Clinical procedures come with risks and should be avoided if possible. Jane Dudley's...

What do you need the clinic for if you already have a donor?

I'm impressed with your website. How did you learn to create it? I was/am in a similar position as you, and I created HumanMicrobes.org for the same purpose. I screened over a million donors before the FDA stopped me. Despite all those applicants, I still didn't find a "super-donor". So the...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-56144-x In this related thread: Mucosal microbiota transplant, clearing the gut mucosa prior to FMT, @indigo34 said the current evidence comparing fecal & mucosal microbiomes is muddied due to using bowel prep prior to obtaining mucosal samples. I...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/cockroaches-scurry-around-with-thousands-of-pieces-of-bacterial-genomes/ https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2604240123

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2026/june/bacteria-can-learn-and-form-memories-without-a-brain https://journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstract/10.1103/5zbg-8vll

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/tire-particle-study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412026002655

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17562848261452497 A group from Denmark. Ridiculous donor criteria. The fact that they passed 13 of them highlights that. It should be no surprise that they made patients worse. Yet they didn't even try.

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00711-26 I wonder why they had collected the infant's stool prior to symptom onset.

This is absolute nonsense. Microbes are generally "species native", which means that pigs have their own strains of certain bacteria, mice have their own strains, and humans have their own strains, etc. There are FMT consensus guidelines linked on the website that conclude that "universal...

Firstly, that's a nonsensical sentence. Secondly, it's not true. There are plenty of sources of FMT, including most clinical trials, that do not use "many different donors". Third, there are many different reasons for "fecal donations", with widely varying criteria for donors. For example, C...

I'm not a fan of TikTok, but everything on TikTok is sketchy? That seems like a stretch. And why are you on TikTok if everything on TikTok is sketchy? And you go from TikTok to Reddit? You seem to spend a lot of time on sketchy websites. The questionnaire absolutely asks about family disease...

This is a really weird claim. It's literally the main heading of the front page: "Working to find the fewer than 0.1% of people with healthy, unperturbed, disease-resistant microbiomes" And on the Donors page, "0.1%" is in bolded text multiple times. It's quite odd (and deceptive) that they're...

This one is quoting multiple redditors. It appears that this person didn't bother to review the website at all. The first blog post is about "our 1 in 23,000 donor". Not quite as rare as the "one in hundreds of millions" for the lottery. The "video of jogging for 240 minutes" part is probably...