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    FMT Recipients' native bacteria determine the outcome of FMT treatment in inflammatory bowel disease (Dec 2025, n=96) "remission rates were 82.4% for CD patients and 84.4% for UC patients"

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2025.2600055 Those are unusually high remission rates.
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    Probiotics The Hype behind Probiotics (Dec 2025) Popular supplements with billions of “good” microbes really help only a few illnesses, research shows

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-hype-behind-expensive-probiotic-supplements/ Wow, misinformation: I wonder how much that was impacted by this:
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    Why are bacteria more likely to colonize when doing FMT compared to taking regular probiotics?

    It's covered in the probiotic guide: https://humanmicrobiome.info/probiotic-guide/
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    FMT Case Report: Fecal microbiota transplantation via capsules ameliorated clinical outcomes in a patient with multiple sclerosis (Nov 2025)

    https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2025.1678759/full
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    Testing We may finally know what a healthy gut microbiome looks like (Dec 2025, n=34,694) Gut micro-organisms associated with health, nutrition and dietary interventions

    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2508109-we-may-finally-know-what-a-healthy-gut-microbiome-looks-like/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09854-7 Ended with a big caveat there.
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    FMT Obesity-induced gut microbiota transplantation promotes the occurrence and development of hepatocellular carcinoma (Dec 2025, mice)

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20565623.2025.2599729
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    Study Do microplastics play a role in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases? Shared pathophysiological pathways for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease (review, Nov 2025)

    https://www.uts.edu.au/news/2025/12/five-ways-microplastics-may-harm-your-brain https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11010-025-05428-3
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    Study Alarming surge in memory problems among young adults (Sep 2025, n=4.5 million) Rising Cognitive Disability as a Public Health Concern Among US Adults Trends From the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2013–2023

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251102011158.htm https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214226
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    Study Hormone-disrupting chemicals from plastics shown to promote a chronic inflammatory skin condition (Nov 2025, n=20) Plastic associated endocrine disruptors reduce Nicastrin protein and potentiate inflammation in hidradenitis suppurativa skin disease

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-hormone-disrupting-chemicals-plastics-shown.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65789-7
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    Article FDA Issues Warning About Imported Cookware That May Leach Lead: August 2025

    https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/fda-issues-warning-about-imported-cookware-may-leach-lead-august-2025 They have a table listing all the items, where they were sold, and photos of them. It looks like most of them are imported from India.
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    Procedure DIY FMT Beginner's Questions

    Avoiding deadly pathogens and problems that are not obvious without tests.
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    Procedure DIY FMT Beginner's Questions

    Wherever you read that is a low-quality source of information because that's not correct. The wiki covers FMT prep: https://humanmicrobiome.info/fmt/
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    Is a lot of probiotics the same as FMT? Anyone try VSL 3? I’m trying a high dose (around 230 billion CFU daily)

    If you take FMT that lackadaisically, you're likely to get worse. What you listed is not how you select & screen a donor. https://humanmicrobiome.info/fmt/ This does not exist.
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    Is a lot of probiotics the same as FMT? Anyone try VSL 3? I’m trying a high dose (around 230 billion CFU daily)

    Not even close. Probiotics can be, and often are, highly disruptive. https://humanmicrobiome.info/probiotic-guide/ In large part, the opposite of FMT.
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    I’m terrified and don’t want to eventually develop a horrible disease, my gut is ruined! Help!

    Did you review the wiki? https://humanmicrobiome.info/testing/ That's generally correct. This is misleading to the point of being misinformation. Presumably they have already seen a doctor and ruled out other causes. It is very rare that something like this is not related to the gut microbiome.
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