Recent content by SFBayFMT5

The key word here is "can". It is not possible to only pick good donors, even being extremely picky, which is the same exact thing you are saying. However, my point is that with enough a variety of decently good donors, the bad kind of ends up canceling out. Case in point, me with Gezonde...

But you still said you were "considering" putting your daughter back on heavy antibiotics--whether or not it's YOU treating people is not the question, it's whether you advocate people who trust you to take this course of action. The fact that you reconsidered is very good. As far as FMT...

I feel the need to make another post clarifying what I said above. I do NOT oppose in any way the timely treatment of Lyme disease (with antibiotics) for a standard amount of time, possibly slightly longer (up to maybe 6 months in cases that were caught late), provided the patient actually...

That's precisely what I'm saying--you don't know how much of the fact that you have residual symptoms has to do with the effect that Lyme treatment had on your gut, vs. the effect of the Lyme itself. In my experience, going down the road of "it's all still Lyme" is a recipe for getting...

That's exactly what I was trying to advise about. Given my experience, and the experience of nearly everyone I've heard about going through it, the answer is almost certainly NOT more aggressive Lyme treatment. I noted that even you yourself said "I did reasonably well", not "I was cured of...

Because of how experimental this is, I was going to wait to post anything until I had basically figured this out completely and was at least as well as I'd been after my OpenBiome FMT in 2015. However, I'm close enough to there to have decent information to provide, and all the time I withhold...

That is concerning if true because of how emphatic and accusatory the OP is regarding GD. Of course, some of the things he/she says, if accurate, are worth noting regardless--like the stated timeframe for processing, the means of blending, and the non-use of diet logs. It's of course up to each...

I have been considering putting her back on an aggressive antibiotic protocol but dont feel that is really the right course of action. I am convinced that the only viable option for her if FMT. I 100% agree that FMT is a FAR more promising option than more of an aggressive antibiotic protocol...

It would be interesting to study the membrane properties of the bacteria that have >5% of their membrane lipids fluorinated due to culture in PFAS, e.g. in terms of ion leak, functioning of electron transport chain proteins, etc. Although they state that the concentration of PFAS they used did...

Have any of you heard of this guy and his story? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/business/his-doctors-were-stumped-then-he-took-over.html This guy is leading a drug repurposing initiative for rare diseases, after having discovered a treatment for his own rare disease. He managed to get...

I agree that the mucus-associated bacteria are probably more important than the luminal bacteria (which make up the majority of the poop) to transfer--especially since they're both more able to exchange metabolites directly with the host and have more access to oxygen from the gut wall to be...

I love the statement that the one pregnancy that occurred was "unrelated to treatment" :-) I'm not sure how well-established it is in fact that all women with a more diverse vaginal microbiome are at risk for reproductive complications. It is well-known that the diversity is correlated with...

For most people in the medical field, the risk/benefit analysis looks very different than from the POV of a desperate patient, or even a dispassionate scientist studying the microbiome in an abstract and/or theoretical manner. Their entire worldview is unfortunately clouded by thoughts of...

As far as I know, what first happened (at least in modern times) is doctors trying FMT for their patients in what were effectively informal clinical trials, when those patients had something like C. diff where there was no known cure that worked for the patients. At the time, since so few people...

You don't specify who "these companies" are, but I'm guessing you mean just general companies that are successful doing business in the US. I don't think you can compare FMT marketing to selling of something like computer games, AI, "life hack" gadgets, vacation rentals, or anything like that...