Recent content by SFBayFMT5

I definitely agree with some of your post above, IsthmusSIBO. @Aim for NaN and @blackpilledFMT seem to be effectively trying to copy HM without adding anything new, except maybe things that are tangential to the actual success of FMT, like web coding. On the other hand, the lack of people...

I'm just seeing this now. I can give my opinion but it seems your case is quite different from mine, starting with a GI infection. The only GI infection I had was C. diff and it was relatively late in the process, after I already had had IBS-D for about 6 years. The initial trigger for the whole...

I will agree with Michael here that this seems excessive. Spending time in nature exposes you to "normal" (as in, what we have been exposed to throughout our evolution as a species) microbes from soil, plants, water, etc. While almost certainly not as integral to our physiology as the microbes...

Are chlorhexidine-based mouthwashes (still) sold in the US? All I've seen are alcohol-based and alkylpyridinium chloride mouthwashes.

I'd be curious to see what the selected microbes are that they are transplanting in preference to others. Searching for the quoted phrase "selective microbiota transplantation" doesn't return many results, mostly just papers that mention the term but don't cite other research that explains more...

Lactobacillus acidophilus is added intentionally to certain dairy products, it's not significantly present in the gut unless you're eating a lot of it. While there are other Lactobacillus species that are common (to be found at all) in the gut like L. gasseri, L. reuteri, and L. salivarius...

There also was another paper recently suggesting that the uterus has a role in cognition and memory.

Yes wow. The fact that someone with a GI disorder would be selling FMT made from his or her own stool seems very odd and I'd stay well away.

So I'm gathering that they only do the procedure via colonoscopy? Different medical centers do FMT procedures differently, some via enema, some colonoscopy, some gastroscopy. There used to be people using nasogastric tubes as well though that seems it might be less common now.

That's interesting... both because donor avoidance of allergens didn't prevent the problem, and also because this was a classic anaphylactic reaction. Many of us on the autism spectrum have food sensitivities and/or allergies, but it was my understanding that classic allergic reactions like...

That's probably true in terms of actionable information for the test taker personally. It's not like a test anyone takes right now will tell him or her whether FMT is promising or if so which donor to use. So basically if you take a test now, you're investing in the future of microbiome...

How about you re-test after doing a FMT, since you're familiar with your pre-FMT results? As far as existing data, if you read almost any scientific paper about FMT they will show pre- and post-FMT microbiome data from the recipients, organized by phylum, genus, and sometimes species. They...

It IS relevant, for two reasons. 1) It is actually quite often in science that there are unwritten procedural details that critically affect the success of a technique. I have often been told by the PIs (group leaders) in labs where I worked that a particular method that seemed useful to us had...

No primary citations will reference preparation in a home lab, unfortunately. In the clinical science world, lab space is plentiful but regulations for human experimentation are strict--thus nobody would propose a study that doesn't have the material prepared by medical doctors or PhDs in a...

The difference is he/she isn't selling anything! That's a huge difference--anyone can express the idea online that FMT is useful for anything. However if you sell a product, and make claims about it that aren't backed up by official sources, then you are asking for legal trouble. What about it...