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  1. Michael Harrop

    FMT Fecal microbiota transplantation-based treatment protocol for chronic insomnia disorder: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (Jul 2026, n=80) "sustained improvement from 2 to 6 months"

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-fecal-microbe-transplantation-people-chronic.html https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joim.70137
  2. Michael Harrop

    Video The truth about gut health | Vox (Jul 2026)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gJvplli2do A pretty good piece of journalism that highlights why few people are talking about FMT despite all the talk about gut health.
  3. Michael Harrop

    Article PFAS pesticides approved after EPA adopts new toxicity definition (Jul 2026) Trump officials kill proposed rules for PFAS-contaminated sewage fertilizer. EPA tosses out scientific research carried out under Biden and says toxic sludge not a significant threat to public

    https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/10/health/pfas-pesticides-industry-influence-wellness https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/trump-pfas-sewage-farm-fertilizer
  4. Michael Harrop

    Oral Is mouthwash harmful? Should you use it? Studies on chlorhexidine and alcohol-based mouthwashes | Collection of studies

    Someone mentioned using mouthwash in another thread. I've read lots of bad things about it, so I'm listing them here. Mouthwash can alter your oral microbiome and potentially damage teeth (Mar 2020, n=36) Effects of Chlorhexidine mouthwash on the oral microbiome...
  5. Michael Harrop

    Study Ovaries may take on job in immune system after their tenure as reproductive organs (Jun 2026, mice) The post-reproductive ovary shifts from a reproductive to an immune-like organ

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-ovaries-job-immune-tenure-reproductive.html https://academic.oup.com/molehr/article/32/2/gaag038/8705536
  6. Michael Harrop

    FMT Case Report: Allergic reaction following fecal microbiota transplantation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a report of two cases (Jun 2026)

    https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pediatrics/articles/10.3389/fped.2026.1847568/full
  7. Michael Harrop

    Other Fecal and colonic microbiota differ in composition, function, diagnostic utility and correlation with inflammatory cytokines in ulcerative colitis (Jun 2026, n=28)

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-56144-x In this related thread: Mucosal microbiota transplant, clearing the gut mucosa prior to FMT, @indigo34 said the current evidence comparing fecal & mucosal microbiomes is muddied due to using bowel prep prior to obtaining mucosal samples. I...
  8. Michael Harrop

    Genetics Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes. Transferring genes across species doesn’t just happen in microbes. (Jun 2026) Uncovering thousands of endosymbiont DNA transfer events within single cockroach genomes

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/cockroaches-scurry-around-with-thousands-of-pieces-of-bacterial-genomes/ https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2604240123
  9. Michael Harrop

    Other Bacteria Can Learn and Form Memories Without a Brain (May 2026) Multi-Timescale Adaptation and Emergent Learning in Single Bacterial Cells

    https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2026/june/bacteria-can-learn-and-form-memories-without-a-brain https://journals.aps.org/prxlife/abstract/10.1103/5zbg-8vll
  10. Michael Harrop

    Study Tire Pollution May Threaten Human Health (Jun 2026) Atmospheric aging of tire rubber antioxidants forms complex mixtures that trigger inflammation in human macrophages

    https://e360.yale.edu/digest/tire-particle-study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412026002655
  11. Michael Harrop

    FMT The effect of fecal microbiota transplantation on quality of life in patients with chronic pouchitis: a post hoc analysis of the MicroPouch trial (May 2026) FMT-treated patients showed a significant decrease in QoL from baseline.

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17562848261452497 A group from Denmark. Ridiculous donor criteria. The fact that they passed 13 of them highlights that. It should be no surprise that they made patients worse. Yet they didn't even try.
  12. Michael Harrop

    FMT Autologous fecal microbiota transplantation restores the infant gut microbiome and metabolome after antibiotics: a case report (May 2026)

    https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.00711-26 I wonder why they had collected the infant's stool prior to symptom onset.
  13. Michael Harrop

    Sources Is HumanMicrobes.org legit? Is it a scam? Are they really paying $500 for stool donation? Misinformation & fake reviews on reddit.

    There are two reddit threads that show up in search results that are full of misinformation. Since reddit is a "free-for-all" where anyone can anonymously write anything they want, there is nothing that can be done about it other than to create threads about them and hope they show up during...
  14. Michael Harrop

    Article HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls for a “moonshot” targeted on the role of the microbiome in cancer (May 2026)

    https://cancerletter.com/the-cancer-letter/20260522_1/ https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/secretary-kennedy-take-back-your-health-tour-ca.html Interesting, but merely a continuation of what's already been happening, which isn't good.
  15. Michael Harrop

    Study High blood pressure, heart attacks linked to common preservatives in food (May 2026, n=112,395) Preservative food additives, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases: the NutriNet-Santé study

    https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/20/health/food-preservatives-heart-risk-wellness https://presse.inserm.fr/en/colorants-conservateurs-trois-nouvelles-etudes-pointent-des-liens-entre-additifs-alimentaires-et-risque-accru-de-cancer-de-maladies-cardiovasculaires-et-dhypertension/72881/...
  16. Michael Harrop

    Parasites An anti-parasitic medication (ivermectin) shifted Amazonian villagers’ microbiomes toward an urban profile (May 2026, n=335) Rapid microbiome restructuring associated with medical exposure in remote Amazonian Indigenous communities

    https://www.the-scientist.com/medical-interventions-rapidly-change-isolated-indigenous-microbiomes-74501 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-modern-medicine-gut-microbial-diversity.html https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(26)00421-3
  17. Michael Harrop

    Origins Vaginal bacteria on newborn skin produce a lipid that reaches the brain and affects neural signaling (Apr 2026) Vaginal microbiota transfer ameliorates cesarean-associated neurodevelopmental deficits in mice via N-bc2S1P synthesis on neonatal skin

    https://www.science.org/content/article/vaginal-bacteria-turn-newborn-skin-beneficial-bioreactor https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1931312826001319 I tagged it as "origins" because it deals with vaginal seeding. I've thought that vaginal seeding (smearing vaginal microbes...
  18. Michael Harrop

    Other Scientists identify bacterial glycogen as a gut trigger behind ALS and dementia (Jan 2026) C9orf72 in myeloid cells prevents an inflammatory response to microbial glycogen

    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260408225944.htm https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(25)01678-X
  19. Michael Harrop

    FVT Fecal virome transplantation attenuates arthritis in mice by remodeling gut ecology, systemic tryptophan metabolism, and innate immune responses (Apr 2026)

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-026-00980-2
  20. Michael Harrop

    Other Bacteria are weaving forever chemicals directly into their cell membranes (Mar 2026) Bacteria covalently incorporate polyfluoroalkyl carboxylates into membrane lipids

    https://phys.org/news/2026-04-bacteria-chemicals-cell-membranes.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-026-02301-x
  21. Michael Harrop

    Article EPA, HHS Announce Historic Actions to Protect Americans from Microplastics and Safeguard Drinking Water. ARPA-H launches groundbreaking, $144 million program to combat microplastics in the human body (Apr 2026)

    https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-hhs-announce-historic-actions-protect-americans-microplastics-and-safeguard https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/arpa-h-launches-groundbreaking-144-million-program-combat-toxic-microplastics-human-body.html...
  22. Michael Harrop

    Diet Stools suggest why Papua New Guineans on low-protein diet are muscular. Excreta-related research at the University of Tokyo (Apr 2026)

    https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z1304_00300.html
  23. Michael Harrop

    Vagina Vaginal microbiota transplantation for treatment of vaginal dysbiosis without the use of antibiotics: a double-blind, randomised controlled trial in women with vaginal dysbiosis (Mar 2026, n=49) "VMT without antibiotics did not significantly improve microbiome conversion in this trial"

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(25)00222-8/fulltext
  24. Michael Harrop

    Study Breakdown products from 'eco-friendly' plastics impede fetal development in mice (Mar 2026) Oligomeric lactic acid nanoplastics induce intrauterine growth restriction in mice by disrupting GATA2-mediated placental vascular development

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-breakdown-products-eco-friendly-plastics.html https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003676
  25. Michael Harrop

    FMT Faecal microbiota transplant for chronic norovirus infection: a case report of donor microbiota engraftment without clinical success (Mar 2026)

    https://academic.oup.com/gastro/article/doi/10.1093/gastro/goag015/8512970
  26. Michael Harrop

    FMT Her son needed a fecal transplant for a fearsome C. diff infection. Getting one required a tortuous journey. Stricter FDA stool bank rules made the treatment harder to find (Mar 2026)

    https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/c-diff-fda-drug-approval-access-paradox-fecal-transplants/
  27. Michael Harrop

    FMT Faecal Microbiota Transplantation Improves Outcomes in Depression (Mar 2026, n=46) A study on the efficacy and safety of fecal microbiota transplantation as an adjunctive therapy for treating depressive episodes

    https://www.emjreviews.com/neurology/news/faecal-microbiota-transplantation-improves-outcomes-in-depression/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-41801-y
  28. Michael Harrop

    Other Popularity and acceptance of FMT. Who is to blame for why FMT will never be available? Ignorance, laziness, and apathy of the general public? How to motivate people to take action?

    This is completely erroneous. Chronic disease and poor health already afflict the vast majority of the population. They can't try FMT because safe and effective donors are not available, and will never be because people are too ignorant and lazy to do anything to make them so. They're not...
  29. Michael Harrop

    FMT Gut microbiota modulation via repeated donor fecal transplantation improves motor and gastrointestinal symptoms in drug-naïve Parkinson’s disease: a randomized phase 2 trial (Mar 2026, n=72)

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-026-02604-9
  30. Michael Harrop

    10-year-old Emma puts severe Ulcerative Colitis in remission with DIY FMT from her mom (2013)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-5-QOjTkEs A second video with a little more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLIndT7fuGo It references this blog, but most of the saves are unavailable https://web.archive.org/web/20130113144423/http://thepowerofpoo.blogspot.com/ Donor: Mother. The...
  31. Michael Harrop

    Aging Scientists Tried to Age Young Ovaries with Old Microbes but Accidentally Made Them More Fertile (Mar 2026) Estropausal gut microbiota transplant improves measures of ovarian function in adult mice

    https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/young-ovaries-old-microbes/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-026-01069-3
  32. Michael Harrop

    Rod Clair does successful FMT from his wife for diverticular disease, IBS, severe gastritis, chronic fatigue, and more (Dec 2021, fecal microbiota transplant)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN1VV_zauDU Her stool quality looks pretty good. He takes one small dose every 1-7 days. It seems that he still has some brain fog and weight gain.
  33. Michael Harrop

    Causation Memory loss is fuelled by gut microbes in ageing mice (Mar 2026) Intestinal interoceptive dysfunction drives age-associated cognitive decline

    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00768-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10191-6
  34. Michael Harrop

    Antibiotics A single course of antibiotics can leave a lasting mark on the gut microbiome (Mar 2026) Antibiotic use and gut microbiome composition links from individual-level prescription data of 14,979 individuals

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-single-course-of-antibiotics-may-reshape-the-gut-microbiome-for-years/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04284-y
  35. Michael Harrop

    Causation Specific gut bacteria species linked to muscle strength (Mar 2026) Roseburia inulinivorans increases muscle strength

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-specific-gut-bacteria-species-linked.html https://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2026/03/03/gutjnl-2025-336980
  36. Michael Harrop

    FMT Why some gut microbes persist after fecal transplants (Feb 2026) Temporal dynamics of gut biosynthetic gene clusters link persistent colonization and engraftment in fecal microbiota transplantation

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-stay-stray-gut-microbes-persist.html https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2026.2634469
  37. Michael Harrop

    Phages A virus hiding inside bacteria may help explain colorectal cancer (Feb 2026, n=877) Distinct prophage infections in colorectal cancer-associated Bacteroides fragilis

    https://theconversation.com/a-virus-hiding-inside-bacteria-may-help-explain-colorectal-cancer-276695 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-026-01403-1
  38. Michael Harrop

    Other Sleep disruption damages gut's self-repair ability via stress signals from brain (Feb 2026) Sleep disturbance triggers aberrant activation of vagus circuitry and induces intestinal stem cell dysfunction

    https://news.uci.edu/2026/02/05/sleep-disruption-damages-guts-self-repair-ability-via-stress-signals-from-brain/ https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(26)00025-1
  39. Michael Harrop

    Other Hidden biological signals in the gut point to Alzheimer’s as a whole-body disorder (Jan 2026) Gut proteome and microbiome alterations: Analysis of transverse colon samples from pathologically confirmed Alzheimer's disease patients

    https://news.asu.edu/20260116-science-and-technology-roots-alzheimers-disease-extend-beyond-brain https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.71021
  40. Michael Harrop

    Testing Gut health index measures microbial interactions to track disease (Feb 2026) Imbalance in gut microbial interactions as a marker of health and disease

    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-gut-health-index-microbial-interactions.html https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1117082 https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5724876/scientists-find-a-new-clue-to-help-them-identify-a-healthy-gut-microbiome...
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