Recent content by Michael Harrop

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/climate/olympics-ski-snowboard-wax-pfas-forever-chemicals.html That's very surprising, but nice to see the Olympics is trying to eliminate PFAS.

I did not stop. The FDA restricted who can purchase stool. IE: stool can only be distributed as part of a clinical trial or under an individual-patient-IND. And there is no "waiting for Congress". Congress isn't going to do anything unless people make them, and the people who want FMT are not...

I already did both of those. That's not a solution. It's bizarre that someone would copy what I already did instead of work on needed solutions. It makes it seem like you're not actually interested in solving the problems, and that your intentions are not good.

I think it's mostly futile. Even human milk doesn't seem to be anywhere close to FMT, so drinking the milk from another species is even less effective due to host-native microbes. If you really want a cure, you'll have to take action on FMT.

Is this Microbioma, GD, or both?

Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong. In part due to how users are asking their questions (Feb 2026, n=1,298) Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/well/chatgpt-health-advice.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04074-y

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-overlooked-group-gut-bacteria-key.html https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(26)00038-7

I responded here: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/comparing-commercial-fmt-providers.861/post-3433 because it's getting off-topic for this thread.

This is a response to a post in another thread: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/warning-gezonde-darmflora-marco-kleijn-comprehensive-review-scam-alert.1297/post-3432 Much of it is private. I've been observing for 10+ years. Some of it is archived in the wiki...

This is not a remotely valid approach. Most of the people recommending specific providers and claiming good results from them are very obviously paid or incentivized to do so. That's pretty dishonest. Those are not private medical information, especially when the donor is anonymous. Human...

Manufacturing details are trivial compared to donor quality. Being able to trust that the donor is safe and will not make you worse is the most important factor. So the details that show Gezonde Darmflora is an untrustworthy source are the most concerning. Irrelevant. They achieve decent...

Some of this I agree with, and is already listed in the wiki: https://humanmicrobiome.info/where-to-get-fmt/#gezonde-darmflora 1. The reviews - Yes, they don't seem real. 2. Manufacturing flaws - I disagree that this is the most concerning. I agree that blending is not ideal, but it is widely...

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/plastic-pollution-promotes-hazardous-water-conditions-new-study-finds https://www.nature.com/articles/s44458-025-00014-6

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00333-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04219-7 By "infections", they're referring to HPV https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00128-4