Recent content by SFBayFMT5

Sure EvaJak. These FMTs were the latest in a series that I started last May, so you may want to read my previous review of HM (in which I also compare and contrast that with OpenBiome). But briefly, this whole thing started with a sort of stretching pain in my middle back and a visibly swollen...

Firstly, how do you know it's even the same woman we are talking about? Secondly, much of my interaction with her was in private messages, it was not public. Not to say that what she said publicly was in any way lacking in transparency either mind you--just that if she didn't spell everything...

That site has "scam" written all over it! Lots of very good sounding but completely vague verbiage and no actual work they are doing.

It was the man, not the woman, who was evasive. The woman was very forthcoming about exactly how she had done her FMTs and what her experience was. She however ONLY used DF3, which was the donor who made me worse. The man had used both. This third study is about frozen FMT vs. FMT that has...

Firstly--so Gezonde Darmflora (who I will call GD from now on) went through a period earlier this winter of not accepting orders from the US due to customs issues--thankfully neither of my orders had this problem although other orders in the same time frame did. Now they have solved this problem...

-do you get the same body odor as your donor after a lot of fmts? or is it more of a temporary effect that's gone as soon as you finish the fmts? I have not smelled the body odor of any donors as I do not know any of them personally. I also haven't noticed major shifts in my BODY odor after FMT...

I just wrote to Senator Cassidy last night

Just last night I posted a very recent (in fact, not yet formally published in a journal) paper in the "Microbiome studies, news, media" section that you might really like to read. You ask a lot of questions about the microbiome and how it functions biochemically, that's what this paper is all...

In what way were you not impressed with Viome's results? Did they indicate your gut was "normal" despite you feeling very poor? That's how Thryve (now Ombre) was for me. I read about GutID and it seems the chief advantage they claim is that they identify bacteria down to the strain level...

I mean that there is no way to compare PROVIDERS without receiving data from people who have tried more than one. Saying merely that of five people who ONLY tried Microbioma, for instance, only two improved, while of four who ONLY tried Gezonde Darmflora, all four improved, doesn't necessarily...

It looks like at least the abstract was run through an automated translation software of some kind, because some incorrect interpretations of terms have been added. In particular, I assume that "F/B ratio" in the original paper is referring to the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio, but the software...

I was excited to see this paper a little under a month ago, as it confirms some things I've been using as a working assumption for a long time, yet never actually seen any empirical evidence for. The paper is only a preprint (i.e., an article that hasn't made it into an actual journal yet) now...

"Other people make brief comments here and there"--that gives no basis to evaluate the overall success rate of any provider. What you really need is to look for people who have tried more than one provider. Clearly there are people for whom finding the right provider and/or donor is MUCH harder...

Interesting! So maybe it's time for a "microbiome zodiac" lol. While I'm sure that environmental bacteria vary significantly across the seasons, I would have thought that the human host environment would have buffered a lot of that, especially in modern Western cultures where food...