Recent content by SFBayFMT5

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...

I'm guessing by "I wonder why" you mean "How did they have the foresight to". Otherwise the answer is rather obvious :-). Possibly this was a study planned in advance, and all participating infants' stool was collected at regular intervals in case any of the subjects were to require antibiotics...

Just wanted to report that this is no longer just a preprint! I don't know how I missed this, I was checking back periodically every few months for quite a while since I first saw this paper and it never had progressed past BioRxiv. Turns out it's been published since October of last year...

I have to wonder why you are responding now on here to threads posted on Reddit three years ago. I can only speculate that you have gotten feedback from people through your activism in DC that these negatively toned threads are affecting their opinion of your intentions and/or willingness to get...

It seems to me that the authors of the first paper are not arguing that it is specifically the ivermectin that caused the changes, but rather "contact with the modern medical system". I agree this is a weird way to describe it (at least, I gather from how you present this that you also think...

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...