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    Article HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls for a “moonshot” targeted on the role of the microbiome in cancer (May 2026)

    https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20260522_1/ https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/secretary-kennedy-take-back-your-health-tour-ca.html Interesting, but merely a continuation of what's already been happening, which isn't good.
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    Study High blood pressure, heart attacks linked to common preservatives in food (May 2026, n=112,395) Preservative food additives, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases: the NutriNet-Santé study

    https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/20/health/food-preservatives-heart-risk-wellness https://presse.inserm.fr/en/colorants-conservateurs-trois-nouvelles-etudes-pointent-des-liens-entre-additifs-alimentaires-et-risque-accru-de-cancer-de-maladies-cardiovasculaires-et-dhypertension/72881/...
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    Other Free Help to Find FMT Clinics Worldwide

    It's important to note that even if you can get FMT from these sources, that doesn't mean it's safe to do so. Virtually every source of FMT is only screening & using whoever is easy to locally obtain. High-quality (safe & effective) stool donors are very rare, and these places are not putting...
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    Parasites An anti-parasitic medication (ivermectin) shifted Amazonian villagers’ microbiomes toward an urban profile (May 2026, n=335) Rapid microbiome restructuring associated with medical exposure in remote Amazonian Indigenous communities

    I recall an earlier study that Martin Blaser was either involved in, or commented on, which found that anti-parasitic medications caused minimal changes to the gut microbiome. I can't find it now though. I tried a web search for "anti parasitic medication microbiome change minimal blaser". The...
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    Parasites An anti-parasitic medication (ivermectin) shifted Amazonian villagers’ microbiomes toward an urban profile (May 2026, n=335) Rapid microbiome restructuring associated with medical exposure in remote Amazonian Indigenous communities

    https://www.the-scientist.com/medical-interventions-rapidly-change-isolated-indigenous-microbiomes-74501 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-modern-medicine-gut-microbial-diversity.html https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(26)00421-3
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    Blog Fuck Portion Control by Nathan Guy Hatch

    People assuming something must be true because it's "obvious" is how misinformation spreads. If you're going to contradict something with numerous citations supporting it, you need to cite some evidence.
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    Blog Fuck Portion Control by Nathan Guy Hatch

    Restoring beneficial microbes results in the sick person having the desire/motivation to change their lifestyle (exercise more, etc.). The evidence does not support the notion that you need to make lifestyle changes for FMT to work. Citation needed. There is plenty of evidence in the wiki to...
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    Healthcare system Incoming trump admin with RFK signals new start for FDA

    Dr. Marty Makary just resigned as head of the FDA. So Makary and Prasad are both out, without any action on FMT, antibiotics, the microbiome, or anything related. Two people who seemed quite promising ended up doing nothing.
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    Procedure Looking for advice on autologous FMT

    You should track changes to your stool & health and post to the experiences section ~1 month after you're done: FMT experiences from personal donors
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    Sources Does anyone have any experience with Microbiota Therapeutics at UMN (University of Minnesota)?

    If they did, it would be under the FMT clinics & commercial stool providers | experiences & reviews section. If you search for them on the forum, you can see that they're one of the worst sources of stool that exists. The person running it seems apathetic about donor quality, and thus their...
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    Procedure Looking for advice on autologous FMT

    Procedure details are covered in the wiki. https://humanmicrobiome.info/fmt/ There's also a FAQ here: https://www.humanmicrobes.org/ordering-faq You can also look through what other people have done: There are sections on this subforum for people's reports, including mine...
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    Other Where can I buy empty enteric-coated capsules for FMT in Europe/Sweden?

    Yes, we are literate here, so we were able to read your question the first time you asked. We responded to it, and instead of responding to my response, you restated your question. So are you unable to read our responses, or are you a bot?
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    Other Where can I buy empty enteric-coated capsules for FMT in Europe/Sweden?

    They're pretty common. How have you tried to find them? Have you looked in local dietary supplement stores?
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    Origins Vaginal bacteria on newborn skin produce a lipid that reaches the brain and affects neural signaling (Apr 2026) Vaginal microbiota transfer ameliorates cesarean-associated neurodevelopmental deficits in mice via N-bc2S1P synthesis on neonatal skin

    https://www.science.org/content/article/vaginal-bacteria-turn-newborn-skin-beneficial-bioreactor https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1931312826001319 I tagged it as "origins" because it deals with vaginal seeding. I've thought that vaginal seeding (smearing vaginal microbes...
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