Recent content by SFBayFMT5

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...

That's precisely what I'm saying--you don't know how much of the fact that you have residual symptoms has to do with the effect that Lyme treatment had on your gut, vs. the effect of the Lyme itself. In my experience, going down the road of "it's all still Lyme" is a recipe for getting...

That's exactly what I was trying to advise about. Given my experience, and the experience of nearly everyone I've heard about going through it, the answer is almost certainly NOT more aggressive Lyme treatment. I noted that even you yourself said "I did reasonably well", not "I was cured of...

Because of how experimental this is, I was going to wait to post anything until I had basically figured this out completely and was at least as well as I'd been after my OpenBiome FMT in 2015. However, I'm close enough to there to have decent information to provide, and all the time I withhold...

That is concerning if true because of how emphatic and accusatory the OP is regarding GD. Of course, some of the things he/she says, if accurate, are worth noting regardless--like the stated timeframe for processing, the means of blending, and the non-use of diet logs. It's of course up to each...

I have been considering putting her back on an aggressive antibiotic protocol but dont feel that is really the right course of action. I am convinced that the only viable option for her if FMT. I 100% agree that FMT is a FAR more promising option than more of an aggressive antibiotic protocol...