A Boring Dystopia

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There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone. (www.humanmicrobes.org)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Reading the site, it's interesting, but there are too many unknowns for me to get excited. Dosing, storage, pricing, delivery, effects, side effects all still seem unknown or not well understood.

Getting directly mailed a bag a poop after paying someone through zelle is a pretty wild thought.

Maybe FMT is a good idea, but it's still too unknown for me to accept it.

Regarding regulation, potentially it could follow the path of supplements which seems to be immune from the FDA, FDA doesn't regulate multivitamins nor yogurt.

Also explaining eating ass to the FDA in a formal letter is hilarious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, FMT is super experiemental. The point of the blog/website is not to convince people to buy poop, it's to find ideal stool donors who may be able to cure a variety of diseases.

Maybe FMT is a good idea, but it’s still too unknown for me to accept it.

It can't become "more known" unless a highly effective donor can be found. And such a donor can't be found unless people start helping...

I don't think FMT is appropriate to regulate as a supplement. The ingredients of supplements are known and standardized. FMT is an extremely complex and dynamic ecosystem. Yogurt is a handful of known microbes in a highly controlled environment. FMT vs yogurt is like the universe vs a zoo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Agreed

I feel like coordination with a professional sports coach would be a good start, the players are already accustomed to many tests, the team doctor would probably be interested in gut biome v performance, and it's a pre-selected pool of young, healthy, athletic people with at least semi-controlled diet.