MaximilianKohler
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I have, and I'm pretty skeptical about that method. Especially due to the lack of details given and not publishing it in a major journal. I think we're a long way away from being able to identify and culture the most important microbes for FMT. One example is that one study showed a "sterile fecal filtrate" containing no bacteria was effective for C. Diff. It contained phages though, and probably points to phages being more important than bacteria.Have you looked into the Thomas Borody bacteriotherapy method used in his ME/CFS study, where instead of using FMT, I believe he cultured important anaerobic gut bacteria including Bacteroidetes, Clostridia and Escherichia coli, and placed those in the gut as a sort of super-power probiotic. That might explain his claimed success rate.
See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/HumanMicrobiome/wiki/index#wiki_testing.3A
I don't know how accurate either of those claims are. I haven't seen any info on that last one. The first statement is supported by Borody's study, but there are the issues with it I mentioned above.If these species were available as probiotics, they would be far more effective than the current probiotics available. But because they can occasionally cause an invasive bacterial infection, nobody wants to sell them as probiotics.
I would like to see more studies testing those bacteria, but the fact that he didn't continue with it suggests it wasn't really effective.
Yeah I don't think they exist. There are some companies working on that type of synthetic FMT product but they haven't had good success thus far.I wanted to try to source some of these bacteria for probiotic use (which would have a risk), but could not find any supplier. I believe they are hard to culture anyway, as they are anaerobic and are killed by oxygen.