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- publichealth@mander.xyz
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Reminder that the FDA is the state mechanism to protect the wealth of the pharmaceutical giants. The very few times they (the FDA) actually facilitate improvements in medicine/health are only as a side effect of that mission and are completely incidental.
Dr. Alexander Khoruts (University of Minnesota GI, Director, UMN Microbiota Therapeutics Program) made a similar comment. https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/designer-hit-panel-discussion-achieving-cures-together-dec-2023-peter.216/
He asks an FDA adviser “Does the FDA care more about profits or people?”, and the response he gets is “one of the missions of the FDA is to protect the interests of commercial developers”. Another question to the advisor: “How much influence does the industry have over the FDA decisions?”, A: “A lot”.
Here’s an example of virtually no one out of 1.2 million people caring whatsoever: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/threads/high-quality-stool-donors-are-more-rare-than-one-in-a-million-ai-fundi.304/post-760
This is the kind of thing that for me invalidates all those pro-natalism “large population = more chances that one person’s going to do something great” arguments. 8 billion people and a single disabled person is left to do it on their own. Especially when it’s something like this where anyone/everyone can do something to help, and 99.99999% of people just simply can’t be bothered.
yup. more monkeys do not make better shakespeare.
Most people don’t give a shit.
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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
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.
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.
Be sure to actually read the blog. I made a post about this in another community and one person completely ignored the blog and used deceptive tobacco and oil industry tactics to spread FUD and disinformation. But people who actually read the blog should be immune to that.
For example, here is the reaction of a normal and knowledgeable person who actually read the blogs: https://twitter.com/chydorina/status/1767995009771647375
