Recent content by SFBayFMT5

When I got my OpenBiome FMT, it was at most 48 hours prior to the procedure that I was instructed to stop taking vancomycin. It might have even been only 24 hours, and yet however long it was, it still perfectly did its job breaking the cycle of C. diff recurrences. It also did a lot of other...

If your experience contradicts this, then that again shows how poorly your reports convey what various treatments did for you, because as I understand them by reading, nothing in your descriptions in any way goes against what I said above. First there was the fact that the four donors who...

You might be better off asking in a computational biology forum like Biostars or r/bioinformatics, but what are you looking to do? Are you looking to take genomes of new strains that lack gene annotations and find genes in there? or is knowing the pathways from the genomes of reference strains...

The microbiome DOES have a profound effect on mental, in addition to just physical health. However, not in the way you imagine if you are seriously asking yourself questions like this. I thought of this before my very first FMT (and before some other interventions before that)--I am on the...

The thing is, their hands are tied as well (in the US). Doctors and other medical professionals who promote FMT for conditions other than C. diff risk disciplinary action up to eventually losing their medical licenses if they persist. By "promote" here I mean not just to state they believe in...

It's interesting that they only found bacteria negatively associated with normal development, and none positively associated. However they found increased diversity associated with normal development, which suggests that maybe normal development is promoted by a large variety of different...

Just to add something to 2: In my case, improvement continues for at least a month if not longer after FMT. After my most successful FMT, there were a number of clear immediate (same day/week, this was an endoscopy procedure) changes, but the most dramatic changes happened right around the six...

I do see that you already cite this 2018 in your probiotic page--good for you! But do you mean you had already concluded this BEFORE 2018? If so, was it based on an even earlier study, or simply on your own experience and testimonials from other patients? If the latter, then you do deserve...

"I see that they do send warning letters to people outside the US." What force does this have? Does this mean that if the foreign seller doesn't comply, that anything coming into the US from such a seller will be seized and destroyed? In any case, this obviously confirms the FDA is back up and...

Also, did you see the reference about probiotics cited in that article (Ref #2)? I only noticed it just now, but it's informative. The conclusion of that one was that probiotics actually delay recovery of the gut microbiome after antibiotics, relative to taking nothing except the antibiotics...

Too late for us whose guts are already messed up, but hopefully this will be around for patients in the future! It's an engineered strain of yeast that destroys antibiotics in the gut before they have a chance to deplete the intestinal microbiome.

So basically he is concerned with health care, or at least claims to be, but only so far as to help people afford conventional treatments like pharmaceuticals? Rather than accuse people of being frauds, your message should be that there is an effective treatment that is banned by the...

How is that relevant to FMT? I'm assuming this was a hearing relating to health policy? If so, getting the serious attention of anyone in those hearings could be a win, even if it's only a few people. If this hearing was on an unrelated topic, then obviously it wasn't a good place to bring up...

How is the campaigning in DC going?