Recent content by Michael Harrop

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

Unfortunately for patients, the FDA disagrees.

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?

They're pretty common. How have you tried to find them? Have you looked in local dietary supplement stores?

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...

You can check the "experiences" subforums. Some people contracted new skin conditions from bad donors, and there's at least one person with major improvement in the "results spreadsheet" here: https://www.humanmicrobes.org/orders

How one determines if FMT is right for them is by reviewing the research/wiki to understand that the gut microbiome regulates the entire body, so there is virtually nothing that is not impacted by the gut microbiome. For example, the page on skin conditions: https://humanmicrobiome.info/skin/...

Senate appropriations HHS subcommittee hearing with RFK, April 21, 2026 https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/a-review-of-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2027-budget-request-for-the-department-of-health-and-human-services Senate Finance Committee hearing with RFK, April 22, 2026...