Recent content by SFBayFMT5

I only had to read this much to figure out that this person is a loon. Electrons are constrained in the ETC by 1) the proper folding of its proteins, which fully surround the electron carriers except in places where electrons are designed to get in or out, and 2) the membrane lipids, which are...

I very much agree with the point overall, but this isn't strictly true. C-section is a surgery and so it has risks that don't occur with non-surgical birth. One would need to look at the likelihood of complications of vaginal birth in various environments with different levels of infection...

Likely because they're only interested if you're either a hospital or a researcher coming to them with a clinical trial proposal. It likely has nothing to do with them being a good or bad source (though the failure for C. diff implies they're not a very good one at all) but rather that they have...

This was recently published. It's not a new study, rather it summarizes the current state of knowledge and experience. In a number of cases it addresses things that Michael, myself, or others posting online have noticed but that I haven't noticed being mentioned before...

It's mostly eliminated through the urine so it shouldn't have. The only thing about beta-lactams like amoxicillin that works against you is that they're bactericidal, i.e. they actually kill bacteria rather than just stop them from growing. Thus if you did get amoxicillin into a bodily fluid...

Makes perfect sense, this is one of those times when the cost of NOT taking abx is worse than the potential damage to the microbiome. You wouldn't have wanted to wait until you had a life-threatening infection to start taking them. I hope for you that this is the case. It's not impossible that...

Though only for microbiota-based treatments it seems. The number of drugs that have been approved without knowing how they work is quite large. There is still controversy over how Tylenol works of all things. It's less common now mostly because most research programs that find new drugs start...

The last quote also speaks to an important point that holds for fecal and oral transplants as well: In other words, it's important to learn how transplants work insofar as it makes them able to potentially be performed more successfully, safely, and/or cheaply (for example, if allows...

Indeed. It's remarkable that not only can this lipid cross the skin barrier, which is generally quite impermeable to anything larger than, e.g. gases, but also apparently the blood-brain barrier. I'd never have imagined that a compound likely made in relatively small amounts (it's not a central...

I assume you've looked on Amazon and similar shopping sites? When I was ordering them I found a supplier with not too much trouble, though they're in the US and therefore shipping to Sweden is probably quite expensive from them. I imagine if you search from an account or IP address based in...

Since my last post on the oral transplants where I was saying things were starting to fluctuate, I started getting kidney pain and felt as though I were beginning to pass a stone. I knew I had some asymptomatic ones in there for years but none had ever gotten stuck and caused acute pain until...

Looking through the spreadsheet again just now, I see quite a few more people who mentioned having tried non-HM donors (and even other HM donors) prior to the donor that their entry in the spreadsheet is about than I recall seeing when reading the same spreadsheet in 2024. That's definitely...

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...