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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)...

You're lucky that you got significant improvement from treating Bartonella. I had Bartonella, but never RMSF, and the treatment for that made some things slightly better but not enough to really improve my life. The antibiotics for it though gave me recurrent C. diff, and then the FMT for that...

Did it actually diagnose a condition that was confirmed by reputable tests and that was treatable by standard treatments for that disease/condition? The reason I ask is that there are quite a number of questionable diagnoses that you can nevertheless find plenty of practitioners to diagnose you...

Be aware though that excess vitamin C is turned into oxalate, so if you have any oxalate issues this might actually make you worse. DO make sure you aren't seriously deficient in any vitamins, however if you supplement them, be on the lookout for any changes, good or bad. Positive changes would...

Maybe it was confusing, there was a large time gap in there. The timeline was roughly as follows: 2007ish--First diagnosed with SIBO, hydrogen only, and treated with rifaximin without improvement. At that point I had diarrhea, neuropathy, and depressed mood, but no anxiety, brain fog(*), or...

This doesn't imply anything whatsoever about genetics, rather it implies something about bacterial utilization of lactose. Lactose intolerance occurs when there is insufficient lactase produced by the host to break down lactose, allowing bacteria to ferment the lactose and produce gas. So the...

I had depression and sometimes irritability, but not any face swelling. This was when I first was treated for SIBO. By the time I had my FMT, I had developed severe anxiety, but this had started with a stressful experience (though having a messed-up gut perpetuated it--and the FMT greatly...