FDA restriction means you stopped.
As Michael already said, he did not stop voluntarily, the FDA threatened legal action if he were to continue selling.
You may have a point in that if there were 50 businesses selling FMTs in the US, that might be too many "flies" for the FDA to "swat" and so some would always stay open. However, going to the process of finding a donor pool, testing them, etc. is a lot of work and expense to then 6 months or a year down the road get threatened by the FDA with fines if you don't close down. You can try starting your own but beware of this reality.
If Congress won't do anything until a large number of people speak up, then we're just waiting for Congress.
There are not enough people who need FMT and
know they do to force Congress to do something. I've noticed myself that if I recommend FMT to people in chronic illness groups who I suspect might benefit from it, half of them don't even respond back, and of those that do, most just give a polite acknowledgement for me taking the time to suggest something, but make it clear they're not interested.
Michael seems to have stopped trying to attend meetings in DC, from the fact that he hasn't posted any update videos in months now, but he never actually gave any updates on the forum. I don't know why. But it seemed like the meetings were very difficult to get into. And, one person in a meeting pushing FMT, especially a non-doctor, is unfortunately liable to be labeled as weird or even unhinged unless it's done in a very careful manner.
I wrote to several Congresspeople about it and didn't get even an acknowledgement that my messages were received.
