Recent content by SFBayFMT5

This seems like a very weak study, identifying a single bacterium that correlates with celiac disease and no attempt to follow it up to determine causality.

That IS sketchy. You may be wondering why I'm saying that now, given that I didn't consider it fishy when I learned he had neglected to inform me that one recipient had had a negative response to one donor. The difference is if it is a pattern. I take it for granted that for every provider of...

Thanks! I assumed that since I explained the background of the research and summarized the methods that including the abstract wasn't necessary. Now I know, I will paste the abstract in a quote if and when that research gets published in a regular journal.

You really need to be clearer about which rules/guidelines posts don't conform to. I know the guidelines are there, and I read through them every time before making a post, but apparently there are some I occasionally miss. On other forums, the rules are numbered, and posts that violate one of...

I see it more as a case of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail". Aim for NaN has coding skills, and can handle the web design better than most people, so that's where the focus goes, rather than looking for where the actual "weakest link" is in the process (which has...

I what way do you think that lack of coding expertise had anything to do with why HM was so difficult to start up? As I understand it, the barriers are: 1. Reaching out to quality donor candidates--i.e. the initial contact. A website might be coded perfectly and be very user-friendly, but if...

I heard (Michael unfortunately never shared the details, if he even knows) that it's when you market stool as a treatment. In other words, it's entirely on the marketing side. So NONE of these is illegal for you. As I understand it, most of them are also legal for the donor and/or the friend, as...

As Michael already said, he did not stop voluntarily, the FDA threatened legal action if he were to continue selling. You may have a point in that if there were 50 businesses selling FMTs in the US, that might be too many "flies" for the FDA to "swat" and so some would always stay open...

When I had a bad result from one of GD's donors and was going to re-order more from the other donor who I improved from, Marco was very willing to help me get exactly what I needed. The order was a little complicated though, as I wanted to try an enema yet also get some more capsules (since I...

I did a quick experiment, presenting to ChatGPT the symptoms from when I had my first case of knee swelling due to Lyme, and the blood test result I remember being abnormal, and it generated a list of 5-6 possible conditions. ChatGPT did suggest Lyme disease as the most likely condition...

Evidence? Different people have different moral standards when it comes to this. For some, if they mention their criteria and then just say "all of our donors met those criteria", this is the proper balance between informing the recipient and protecting the donor's privacy, as opposed to...

I got my opinion of the effectiveness from real-time messaging back and forth with previous recipients of GD's product, who I did NOT find through Marco himself. I would encourage everyone to do this, with any provider, i.e. find the most authentic-seeming customers you can find who are...

This is really interesting, it's one of the few studies to look at actual direct protein interactions as a means of potential benefits of symbiotic Proteobacteria/Pseudomonadota. Firstly, many papers treat all of them as if they were merely near-pathogens that manage to achieve harmlessness by...

I agree completely. I was responding to one of Michael's comments that was directed just to me and that didn't actually get posted. He seemed to be trying to create a firm distinction between the "gut" and the "mouth", which is implicit in the very statement "the gut microbiome influences the...

Whether you consider the mouth to be part of "the gut" is just semantics and not worth arguing as it has no concrete implications. What does have implications is whether bacteria can move from one compartment in the digestive tract to another (absent something like FMT deliberately moving them)...