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  1. MaximilianKohler

    Patient initiative: Screening half a million stool donor applicants to find FMT (Fecal Microbiota Transplant) super-donors

    My history: web.archive.org/web/20220801072636/https://old.reddit.com/r/HumanMicrobiome/comments/8sv31e/my_detailed_experiences_lessons_from_8_different/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wi52tLjCps I've been following the microbiome research, doing FMTs, and trying to find a highly effective donor...
  2. Hip

    Amateur cyclist dramatically improves performance to become a pro after FMT from another competitive cyclist

    Microbiologist Lauren Petersen was a keen amateur endurance cyclist. But having contracted Lyme disease when she was 11, and having been given heavy rounds of antibiotics as a treatment, she felt her gut was forever after short on beneficial microbes. So she decided to give herself a fecal...
  3. Hip

    Prof Borody now claiming his FMT treatment cures Crohn's (he's previously claimed his bacteriotherapy cures ME/CFS)

    Prof Thomas Borody, at the Centre for Digestive Diseases in Australia, is now claiming in a new study that his faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) can place Crohn’s disease into prolonged remission (an average of 8 years remission and counting). See this article: Scientists claim to have...
  4. M

    UK FMT - let's search for the healthiest donors for database project

    Dear All, Anyone in the UK who is interested in FMT, I am considering supporting this site and running some Facebook campaigns to find FMT donors for DIY. https://microbioma.org/en/donate/ I spoke the NA admin, and they have had success in gathering donors. UK they have none so far. They...
  5. Hip

    Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) fails to improve obesity, study finds

    Obesity is linked to higher intestinal levels of certain Firmicutes bacteria in relation to Bacteroidetes bacteria. Overweight individuals tend have more Firmicutes bacteria in their gut, whereas normal weight individuals tend have more Bacteroidetes bacteria. Ref: 1 This perhaps suggests the...
  6. MaximilianKohler

    Who to contact to get an FMT clinical trial with high quality donors?

    I've been following the microbiome literature daily for 4+ years while cataloging it all into this wiki: https://old.reddit.com/r/HumanMicrobiome/wiki/ There is tremendous support for FMT being close to a panacea with the major caveat being that the donor is in perfect health, with an...