Have any of you heard of this guy and his story?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/business/his-doctors-were-stumped-then-he-took-over.html
This guy is leading a drug repurposing initiative for rare diseases, after having discovered a treatment for his own rare disease. He managed to get doctors to work with him, which may be able to serve as an example of how some of us experimenting with FMT and/or other forms of microbiota transplant could potentially get part of the medical world to learn from and further refine what we are discovering.
I wonder how much it helped that the most effective treatment he ultimately found was a pharmaceutical drug (albeit originally a nature-derived one), and that also has been one of the "darlings" of the anti-aging field for many years, i.e. sirolimus/rapamycin. Also, maybe the fact that he was a medical student AND a former college football quarterback rather than some random guy off the street might have played some role in how seriously his situation was taken?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/business/his-doctors-were-stumped-then-he-took-over.html
This guy is leading a drug repurposing initiative for rare diseases, after having discovered a treatment for his own rare disease. He managed to get doctors to work with him, which may be able to serve as an example of how some of us experimenting with FMT and/or other forms of microbiota transplant could potentially get part of the medical world to learn from and further refine what we are discovering.
I wonder how much it helped that the most effective treatment he ultimately found was a pharmaceutical drug (albeit originally a nature-derived one), and that also has been one of the "darlings" of the anti-aging field for many years, i.e. sirolimus/rapamycin. Also, maybe the fact that he was a medical student AND a former college football quarterback rather than some random guy off the street might have played some role in how seriously his situation was taken?