Does anyone know if there would be any downside to using API Quickstart on your skin instead of the more expensive AO Biome Nitrifying bacteria mist?

[microbiome]

API Quickstart is fairly cheap source of nitrifying bacteria which is used for aquariums that you can get for as little as $10. The AO Biome Nitrifying bacteria product is $70. The API quickstart has some additional bacteria for the cycle needed for acquariums that we may not need for human skin to metabolize the ammonia on the skin. AO Biome stopped selling their mist for a number of years and people started to look into using the API Quickstart product instead. However, recently AO Biome has started producing their AO Mist again for $70. https://aobiomecosmetics.com/products/d23 This is API Quickstart: https://www.amazon.com/API-Freshwater-Saltwater-Aquarium-Nitrifying/dp/B006YG2GGA/ref=sr_1_2?rdc=1&sr=8-2 https://www.apifishcare.com/product/quick-start

 

[Michael Harrop]

I do not have a lot of knowledge or experience with those products, but from my experience, and from the literature (https://humanmicrobiome.info/skin/), the gut microbiome should be the target.

 

[microbiome]

Spoiler: Rule-violating content

No, this is just to address the bacteria of the skin and what is produced from sweat. The digestive microbiome will not change that.

 

[Michael Harrop]

Please review the rules of this forum: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/rules-info-submission-guidelines-features.20/

You ignored the citations I shared and restated your preconceptions, which happen to be misinformation. That is not allowed here.

You can read my FMT experiences that I linked to learn that my body odor changed dramatically from various stool donors. So have other skin-quality factors. Other people have both developed and cured skin disorders like eczema via FMT. You can search that wiki page for "gut" to see various scientific support.