Month: September 2022

AN OLD THERAPY COMES OF AGE. Impediments to FMT include: "It is aesthetically unappealing, it is logistically challenging (in terms of harvesting and processing suitable donor material), and there is a lack of efficacy data from randomized, controlled trials." https://lnkd.in/e92WcxV View in LinkedIn

FMT "heralds the delayed adolescence of a broad and exciting new branch of human therapeutics." 2013 Editorial in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. A sea change. https://lnkd.in/e92WcxV View in LinkedIn

THE PROMISE OF POOP. "Gastroenterologist Thomas Borody...who since 1988 has performed fecal transplants in more than 3000 patients, suffering not just from C. difficile but also from irritable bowel syndrome; inflammatory bowel syndrome; constipation; arthritis; and sacroiliitis, an inflammation of the sacroiliac joint." https://lnkd.in/ebyCPji View in LinkedIn

MAYO FMT PROTOCOL. "If something goes wrong with nasogastric insertion, the complications could be disastrous....and implanting stool in the small bowel might lead to bacterial overgrowth...the terminal ilium is the optimal site" by colonoscopies infusion. https://lnkd.in/ewXZCsD View in LinkedIn

WIDESPREAD INTEREST. The Cleveland Clinic, John's Hopkins and other major universities all have active FMT programs. https://lnkd.in/ewXZCsD View in LinkedIn

OPENBIOME STOOL BANK "pays donors $40 per sample, plus a $50 bonus for those who donate five times a week. A person providing samples five days a week could earn $13,000 a year from the company." https://lnkd.in/ewE3GRU View in LinkedIn

OPENBIOME STOOL BANK. "However, an extensive medical screening is required for potential donors. Of the first 1,000 people to apply to the program, just 40 met the requirements." https://lnkd.in/ewE3GRU View in LinkedIn

DIY FMT AND CRAPSULES. "Their latest venture is in capsules containing faeces. Similar products have been trialled successfully by researchers at the University of Calgary and Ilan Youngster is currently working on a further study. Thomas Borody also uses them - he calls them "crapsules". Taking faecal tablets, although still revolting as a concept, is less invasive than a colonoscopy or enema." https://lnkd.in/e_6wSXz View in LinkedIn

MERCOLA ON FMT. "It is highly probable that many of our modern diseases are the end result of a dramatic disconnect from the natural world, which teems with microbiota, as predicted by the so-called Hygiene Hypothesis." https://lnkd.in/e6YrYYR View in LinkedIn

FIGHTING OBESITY WITH BACTERIA. "The microbiota from lean or obese humans induces a similar phenotype in mice and, more remarkably, that the microbiota from lean donors can invade and reduce adiposity gain in the obese-recipient mice if the mice are fed an appropriate diet." https://lnkd.in/eddH2Fj View in LinkedIn