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    Aging Scientists Tried to Age Young Ovaries with Old Microbes but Accidentally Made Them More Fertile (Mar 2026) Estropausal gut microbiota transplant improves measures of ovarian function in adult mice

    https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/young-ovaries-old-microbes/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-026-01069-3
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    Rod Clair does successful FMT from his wife for diverticular disease, IBS, severe gastritis, chronic fatigue, and more (Dec 2021, fecal microbiota transplant)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN1VV_zauDU Her stool quality looks pretty good. He takes one small dose every 1-7 days. It seems that he still has some brain fog and weight gain.
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    Causation Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ageing mice (Mar 2026) Intestinal interoceptive dysfunction drives age-associated cognitive decline

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00768-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10191-6
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    Antibiotics A single course of antibiotics can leave a lasting mark on the gut microbiome (Mar 2026) Antibiotic use and gut microbiome composition links from individual-level prescription data of 14,979 individuals

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-single-course-of-antibiotics-may-reshape-the-gut-microbiome-for-years/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04284-y
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    Causation Specific gut bacteria species linked to muscle strength (Mar 2026) Roseburia inulinivorans increases muscle strength

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-specific-gut-bacteria-species-linked.html https://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2026/03/03/gutjnl-2025-336980
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    FMT Why some gut microbes persist after fecal transplants (Feb 2026) Temporal dynamics of gut biosynthetic gene clusters link persistent colonization and engraftment in fecal microbiota transplantation

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-stay-stray-gut-microbes-persist.html https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2026.2634469
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    Phages A virus hiding inside bacteria may help explain colorectal cancer (Feb 2026, n=877) Distinct prophage infections in colorectal cancer-associated Bacteroides fragilis

    https://theconversation.com/a-virus-hiding-inside-bacteria-may-help-explain-colorectal-cancer-276695 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-026-01403-1
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    Article Top FDA Official Resigns Under Pressure (Jul 2025) After turning down several new drugs and restricting use of another, Dr. Vinay Prasad drew the ire of the right-wing influencer Laura Loomer and others

    He resigns again: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/health/fda-prasad-resigns.html
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    Other Sleep disruption damages gut's self-repair ability via stress signals from brain (Feb 2026) Sleep disturbance triggers aberrant activation of vagus circuitry and induces intestinal stem cell dysfunction

    https://news.uci.edu/2026/02/05/sleep-disruption-damages-guts-self-repair-ability-via-stress-signals-from-brain/ https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(26)00025-1
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    Other Hidden biological signals in the gut point to Alzheimer’s as a whole-body disorder (Jan 2026) Gut proteome and microbiome alterations: Analysis of transverse colon samples from pathologically confirmed Alzheimer's disease patients

    https://news.asu.edu/20260116-science-and-technology-roots-alzheimers-disease-extend-beyond-brain https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.71021Abstract
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    Sources Getting lab test results for donors at FMT clinics

    List the clinics you contacted. You definitely shouldn't use any of them. Test results are a bare minimum, and are not adequate to determine safety & efficacy. So if they're not even willing to share that information, then they're definitely not willing to share the important things.
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    Healthcare system Incoming trump admin with RFK signals new start for FDA

    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...
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    Testing Gut health index measures microbial interactions to track disease (Feb 2026) Imbalance in gut microbial interactions as a marker of health and disease

    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...
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    Antibiotics Antibiotic-induced gut microbiome remodeling reduces neuroinflammation in traumatic brain injury (Feb 2026, mice)

    https://neurosciencenews.com/microbiome-tbi-brain-neuroinflammation-30201/ https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1117939 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-026-09737-1
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    Testing Same Poop, Different Results: At-Home Gut Health Tests Are Wildly Inconsistent (Feb 2026) Evaluating the analytical performance of direct-to-consumer gut microbiome testing services

    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/...
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