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I'm hoping to change that. Aside from Rothia mucilaginosa and possibly Neisseria cinerea, nothing looks significantly low here. Is there anything else (Prevotella, Actinomyces, etc.) that really is strikingly low, (like <5% of the midpoint of the normal range)? or just a wide variety of...

I don't mean he was necessarily an "average Joe"--he could have been a super important politician or businessman with lots of connections who is very well known in his circle of influence and still be a "random stranger" for these purposes. He could have even been in the healthcare field...

I don't know if this is the right thread for this, but I watched most of your videos and had some comments. In one video, you mention that you approached a man who looked "visibly unhealthy", and he reacted " with astonishment that you came to that conclusion. Then when you educated him about...

I've found that one of the few links between many otherwise quite different things I do poorly with is phenolic compounds--they seem as a class to be bad news for me. That's true whether they're synthetic (e.g. aspirin, 5-aminosalicylic acid, acetaminophen) or natural (quercetin, green tea)...

EpilepsyFMTCure, which of the SCFA bacteria strains helped you and which didn't?

Have you ever found a study that gave enough information (such as describing stool type) that you would consider the donor(s) that they used GOOD quality??

I'd be happy to read over your proposal. I've applied to PhD programs three times so I know what's involved. I'm also currently at an aging research center so I know that field well. This board doesn't REALLY have DM's, I mean technically it does, but the owner can read and respond to them (and...

It's good to see that they did this. I wonder to what extent this improved results, vs. just guessing on one "best" donor without any clinical track record to back that choice up and writing patients off as nonresponders if they didn't improve from this one donor.

Thanks for sharing this test here! I didn't know such a thing existed. Aside from reducing sugars and simple carbohydrates, or trying to get bacteria from a healthy donor, I don't know of a way to reduce Streptococcus. Many probiotics contain their own species of Streptococcus, which are...

Michael is right, aside from practitioners who perform re-seeding of the microbiome with organisms from a healthy gut, i.e. FMT, microbiome treatment isn't really a thing that has results to show for it. Functional medicine practitioners use the gut as kind of like a marker that shows whether...

They have been pulled from the schedule quite clearly for political reasons, NOT because there are any new scientific findings negating the favorable benefit/risk ratio. I support anyone being able to choose to get or not get this vaccine, but I'm not going to buy into politicians' judgments on...

So from the Science Forums thread it appears as if Rebyota can be used off-label--so shouldn't we be encouraging medical practices to go into the area of prescribing it for patients with damaged microbiomes? Back when I was undergoing Lyme treatment, there were a lot of questionable independent...

I certainly am not ignoring it. My question though is, how can we band together and do some kind of community outreach to find the people who AREN'T turned off by this. Michael is trying to do this on a national scale, which is commendable--but if we all banded together to help each other find...

Ok so FMT IS considered "a drug" even when it is not manufactured by a pharmaceutical company. Are you referring here to your inability to recruit effective donors paying them as much as you did before? So it does seem like you would need to remove all mention of FMT then.

Some comments in the recent thread on Scienceforums.org made me think to ask this question. It's relevant to how exactly FMT products can or cannot be marketed in the USA, and hence to how a successor to Human Microbes would need to operate. People there were claiming that FMT is merely not...