Keto was horrible for me. It's an elimination diet for people who can't digest various carbs properly. Unfortunately, most of those people don't understand their condition, and the gut microbiome, and thus proselytize the diet to everyone...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41531-025-01061-5
Australian group that used the TGA-approved, GMP stool bank.
More evidence that GMP stool banks are not valid approaches to FMT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/magazine/fda-collapse-rfk-kennedy.html
Includes some comments by the former FDA commissioner, Robert Califf. And ends with:
NYT's article title is blaming RFK for cuts he wasn't responsible for. As far as I know, it was DOGE and the Office of Management...
As far as I know, the FDA does not allow pooling donors' stool. I haven't been able to find what is in Rebyota. If anyone has a link, I'll take a look.
Meet Jim O’Neill, the longevity enthusiast who is now RFK Jr.’s right-hand man (Jun 2025) https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/30/1119449/hhs-robert-f-kennedy-jr-jim-oneill-longevity-maha/
Seems like more good news, yet still no action on FMT.
https://humanmicrobiome.info/aging/
Jim...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/health/ai-chatgpt-research-papers.html
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3813
I think this is a huge problem given how flawed the peer review system is. I highly doubt that peer review is able to adequately fact-check the papers and all the...
Discussion with the researchers:
Why Fecal Transplants Sometimes Fail: Function, Not Just Colonization, May Hold the Key https://www.contagionlive.com/view/why-fecal-transplants-sometimes-fail-function-not-just-colonization-may-hold-the-key
All used up over the past 10+ years.
Well I'm still basically the only person doing anything.
Vaccines are mostly unrelated to the microbiome and chronic disease. If anything, everything they're doing wth vaccines is a red herring, distracting from the real issue, which has been ignored so...
That's not what's happening. Pharma companies don't have to do anything but sit by and watch the public research system continually, incompetently fail to make a simple treatment/cure available. No one has to hide or bury anything; they can simply not try, because the FDA is preventing anyone...
https://boingboing.net/2025/06/27/rfk-jrs-maga-project-funnels-millions-from-public-health-to-private-wellness-industry.html
https://www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/mahas-goal-is-not-health
Some parts seem concerning. Other parts are written to raise concern, but aren't necessarily...
Two new hearings:
Jun 25, 2025. Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). Hearings to examine the nomination of Dr. Susan Monarez to head the CDC...
Rule 9: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/rules-info-submission-guidelines-features.20/
SIBO is not a real condition. https://humanmicrobiome.info/sibo/
Could you share more info on SMT?
This is not surprising at all, and isn't a reason to opt for SMT instead of FMT. The issue you experienced is due to their donors: https://humanmicrobiome.info/where-to-get-fmt/
Yes, many people have used children for FMT with success. There is a bit of info in this thread on that too: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/does-stool-donor-sex-and-age-matter-are-there-differences-in-receiving.416/
I don't think they "suggest" it, but they are working on including euthanasia for mental illness in their current law. I generally support that, but it's off-topic for this thread. There are some Youtube videos where patients give their perspective.
https://journals.lww.com/ajg/fulltext/2025/06000/preliminary_results_from_a_multicenter,_randomized.24.aspx
The usual poor donor criteria. Sometimes low-quality donors turn out worse than other times.
Do you have a really bad memory? We've discussed this before, and I've repeatedly written about it on the blog and forum. Your query should also be obviously erroneous to most people, so perhaps your memory is not the issue.
1. None of my donors have ever failed a test. Testing them once is not...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2025.2508950
UMN GMP stool bank provides insights from their and other companies' experiences. UMN appears to have some of the worst donors that exist anywhere.
Interestingly, they mention relevant info about the donor recruitment, payment...
I don't think that's correct. You shouldn't need huge groups of people with FMT success stories. There's a huge body of scientific evidence supporting the gut microbiome and FMT, which should be enough to get the support of the majority of people in the chronic disease communities. It's been...