Recent content by Michael Harrop

Casey Means Senate HELP hearing: https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/nomination-of-casey-means-to-be-medical-director-in-the-regular-corps-of-the-public-health-service-and-surgeon-general-of-the-public-health-service At 50 minutes in, it's noted that she's making hundreds of thousands of...

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-gut-health-index-microbial-interactions.html https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1117082 https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5724876/scientists-find-a-new-clue-to-help-them-identify-a-healthy-gut-microbiome...

https://neurosciencenews.com/microbiome-tbi-brain-neuroinflammation-30201/ https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1117939 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-09737-1

https://gizmodo.com/same-poop-different-results-at-home-gut-health-tests-are-wildly-inconsistent-study-finds-2000726793 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/at-home-microbiome-tests-reveal-dramatically-different-results/...

https://www.medcentral.com/gastroenterology/new-study-links-gut-makeup-to-celiac-disease-pathogenesis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-026-02502-4

It's hearsay. You should encourage those people to post their full, detailed experience here.

I think it's a bad idea to post preprints for the following reasons: There is more coverage and discussion when they're published. So it's better to just wait till then. They sometimes change the title when it's published, and searching titles is generally how we find previous...

This (and much of the rest of your post) exposes such a complete ignorance about existing/past attempts, the changed circumstances, and existing information, that I don't think you're someone worth talking to at all, about anything. What you just said is akin to someone saying they're going to...

The FDA's letter & stance are public: https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/human-microbes-672740-02092024. When I met with them, they would not answer additional questions. I have no additional information since I was unable to find...

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?

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