I saw your post about which criteria make a difference when choosing a donor. I wrote my own thoughts on that here--though like yours, they are based on theorizing/hypotheses and not on actual experience.
https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/the-evidence-and-rationale-supporting-our-stool-donor-criteria-2022-hu.131/post-834
Actual experience regarding these factors may be hard to come by, as most FMT providers don't provide ANY demographic information about donors at all--it's impossible to even tell if you got the same or a different donor as someone else who reported an experience with that same provider. That's the great thing about HMorg that sets them apart from other providers, donor characteristics and interview responses are available to recipients.
However, aside from Michael Harrop himself who has tried many donors, there aren't that many people who have tried enough to clearly be able to test hypotheses (and even if they have, such is difficult to tell from the results spreadsheet due to inconsistent recipient identifiers--an issue that I posted about on the forum before). That gets me to the other thing I wanted to point out, which really was the main purpose of this message--despite how it looks from the "orders" page of HMorg, there are ONLY two donors (one male, FL-RS-1997, and one female, UT-AW-1998) who are currently willing to provide stool AND are tested for pathogens. All the other "current" donors in the spreadsheet have not been tested, which explains why there are so many fewer experience reports for them--only brave souls who accept untested donors have tried those.
To be fair to HMorg, you will be freely informed of this fact if and when you decide to place an order--however it would be helpful to know this ahead of time, as it will likely give you a much better idea of the options you have to choose from. It certainly did for me. I have been told that two other potential donors, one of each sex, are in the process of being "activated" (the term HMorg uses to refer to the blood and stool pathogen testing), though I have no idea how long this will take. To see these you would need to request the longer donor list, which I won't link to as Michael Harrop doesn't want it shared publicly, which I respect. If you ask he will send it. I WILL say though that NEITHER of these is among the people in the spreadsheet who actually have experiences posted about them. It seems none of those will ever be tested unless some of us customers agree to come together and pay to have it done.
https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/the-evidence-and-rationale-supporting-our-stool-donor-criteria-2022-hu.131/post-834
Actual experience regarding these factors may be hard to come by, as most FMT providers don't provide ANY demographic information about donors at all--it's impossible to even tell if you got the same or a different donor as someone else who reported an experience with that same provider. That's the great thing about HMorg that sets them apart from other providers, donor characteristics and interview responses are available to recipients.
However, aside from Michael Harrop himself who has tried many donors, there aren't that many people who have tried enough to clearly be able to test hypotheses (and even if they have, such is difficult to tell from the results spreadsheet due to inconsistent recipient identifiers--an issue that I posted about on the forum before). That gets me to the other thing I wanted to point out, which really was the main purpose of this message--despite how it looks from the "orders" page of HMorg, there are ONLY two donors (one male, FL-RS-1997, and one female, UT-AW-1998) who are currently willing to provide stool AND are tested for pathogens. All the other "current" donors in the spreadsheet have not been tested, which explains why there are so many fewer experience reports for them--only brave souls who accept untested donors have tried those.
To be fair to HMorg, you will be freely informed of this fact if and when you decide to place an order--however it would be helpful to know this ahead of time, as it will likely give you a much better idea of the options you have to choose from. It certainly did for me. I have been told that two other potential donors, one of each sex, are in the process of being "activated" (the term HMorg uses to refer to the blood and stool pathogen testing), though I have no idea how long this will take. To see these you would need to request the longer donor list, which I won't link to as Michael Harrop doesn't want it shared publicly, which I respect. If you ask he will send it. I WILL say though that NEITHER of these is among the people in the spreadsheet who actually have experiences posted about them. It seems none of those will ever be tested unless some of us customers agree to come together and pay to have it done.