Author Archives
Hi. I'm the Editor & Founder of PoP. I'm committed to promoting safe accessible FMT and educating the community on the role of the microbiome in human health.
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Tracy Mac’s Story
Where do you live? Melbourne, Australia. How old are you? 52 What percentage recovered are you? 70% What was your diagnosis and what treatments did you try before Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT)? I had been on regular courses of… Read More ›
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Introduction to Briggs Protocol
The Briggs Protocol for treating Ulcerative Colitis has been floating around the internet and our Facebook FMT Discussion group for a few years now. The reason it’s so popular is that it has worked for many, is… Read More ›
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US government seeks YOUR input into microbiome research
If you live in the US and are passionate about saving the Human Microbiome please consider preparing a submission for the White House regarding your wish-list for Microbiome research. They want to hear from members of the public as well as… Read More ›
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Interview with Jessica Richman of uBiome
Jessica Richman is CEO and co-founder of uBiome, a company that provides human microbiome testing. In 2013 she spoke at TedMed, asking Why Should Science be Limited to Scientists? Ubiome is the result of her passion to make the science of… Read More ›
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Second stool bank established in the USA
A second stool bank has been established in the USA. AdvancingBio is located on the West Coast in Sacramento, California and opened its doors in February. Like OpenBiome on the East Coast, it is non-profit. ePatients please note that stool banks will not sell… Read More ›
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Interview with Dr Silvio Najt
Dr Silvio Najt runs the Newbery Clinic in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Newbery Clinic specialises in the treatment of inflammatory illnesses, through restoration of gut health through nutrition and FMT. What’s your background? How did you become a FMT specialist? I specialize… Read More ›
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Interview with Rebiotix’s Lee Jones
Lee Jones is the founder and CEO of Rebiotix Inc. a biotechnology company founded to revolutionize the treatment of challenging gastrointestinal diseases by harnessing the power of the human microbiome. The company has developed a unique biopharmaceutical platform called Microbiota… Read More ›
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OpenBiome Give a Sh!t Campaign
If you care about educating the world about the human microbiome, please give generously to the OpenBiome Give a Sh!t Campaign and share this link so that others will too. These guys are the real deal, a non-profit organisation who… Read More ›
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Gut Microbiota for Gastroenterologists
Congratulations to Gut Microbiota for Health, always ahead of the pack, for publishing this presentation “Gut Microbiota for Gastroenterologists”. This introduction to gut microbiota includes questions frequently asked by patients, which is most welcome. It looks like the tide in turning… Read More ›
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FDA to Ban Stool Banks?
In May last year the US FDA declared Fecal Microbiota Transplant an Investigative New Drug and confined its use to patients with Clostridium Difficile whose condition had not responded to other treatments. It has now issued a draft guidance paper… Read More ›
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OpenBiome – First to Market with Fecal Microbiota
It is always seems impossible until it’s done. Nelson Mandela I recently had the pleasure of interviewing the team at OpenBiome. I expected to meet a bunch of high wired young entrepreneurs determined to make their first billion from… Read More ›
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2013: The Year of the Microbiome?
The role of the microbiome, the complement of bacterial passengers carried around by every human being, gets more intriguing by the month. The Economist, February 2013 There’s nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, and… Read More ›
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Doctors Urged to Acknowledge Home Fecal Transplant
OPEN LETTER TO: American College of Gastroenterology American Gastroenterological Association Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Gastroenterological Society of Australia New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology British Society of Gastroenterology United European Gastroenterology Austrian Gastroenterological Association German Gastroenterological Association Swiss Society for Gastroenterology… Read More ›
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Bob’s Story
In August, Bob a much loved 57 year old husband, father and state administrator was having regular outpatient treatment in the local hospital in Kentucky, USA, for a non-gut-related condition. One day he had his regular treatment, developed diarrhea that… Read More ›
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Interview with Dr David Shepard M.D.
RDS Infusions is a gastroenterology clinic that assists patients with Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT). R. David Shepard, MD. Is the head of RDS Infusions. He is Board Certified in Gastroenterology and has been practicing in Tampa, Florida, USA for… Read More ›
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Human Microbiome Conference Streaming Live: July 24, 25 & 26
Human Microbiome Conference Streaming LIVE Full conference agenda If you have technical problems viewing click here
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14,000 reasons to support Catherine Duff’s Fecal Transplant Foundation
Whenever one person stands up and says ‘wait a minute this is wrong” it helps other people to do the same. Gloria Steinem Catherine Duff is a C. diff. survivor, and was the sole voice representing patients at the… Read More ›
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Welcome to PoP
Rarely does medical science come up with a treatment so effective, inexpensive, and free of side-effects. The Observer. Welcome to PoP, a patient information resource dedicated to promoting safe accessible Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) and to raising awareness of… Read More ›
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US Food & Drug Administration classifies FMT an Investigational New Drug
It’s been a glum week in the FMT facebook group this week following cancelled FMT procedures in the wake of the FDA’s classification of FMT as an Investigational New Drug (IND). This decision was confirmed in a letter from the FDA to… Read More ›
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Gut Intelligence Survey
Are you a digestive illness orphan without medical diagnosis? Or do you have a UC/Crohns diagnosis and get frustrated by the medical community’s enthusiasm for pumping you full of drugs that cause more problems than they solve and the looming… Read More ›
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How not to say offensive things to those with chronic invisible illness
I recently discovered an article by psychologist Tamara McClintock Greenberg on Providing Support: How To Talk About Illness and chuckled as I read her concluding advice “Be present and try not to say offensive things”. Her article inspired this rant on the… Read More ›
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FMT Goes Commercial
US Angel Investors have invested $5 million in Mikrobex a start up company that will supply pre-screened fecal matter to doctors for use in Fecal Microbiota Transplant. Scientists in Canada have developed synthetic stool called Robogut. Australian FMT pioneer Professor Borody… Read More ›
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Rehab for the Gut
They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, “No, no, no” Amy Winehouse Rehab for the digestive system? If you’ve been sick for many years like most people who find this site, then it’s time to take your system… Read More ›
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FMT Hits Facebook
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead I am pleased to announce the launch of an FMT discussion group on Facebook. This… Read More ›
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Get better or get out: how to support someone with invisible chronic illness
I receive many moving emails and am always inspired by the courage of cyber-sufferers battling invisible chronic illness as they struggle to hold their lives together in the face of disbelief, especially if they have yet to find a diagnosis…. Read More ›
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How to Find a Donor
You would think that finding a fecal transplant donor in a world where people defecate daily would be easy. Your neighbours do it. The bus driver does it. The average person you ignore as you walk down the street… Read More ›
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Exhilaration Rising
I scramble breathless to the top of the cliff where I have hung for two years. There is a stark panorama below. I shudder at the swirling abyss, the demons of mental dysfunction that recently threatened to engulf me. I recall the… Read More ›
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Evenings with Oprah
I’ve taken to watching recorded episodes of Oprah. Her talk show may have ended after 25 years but the re-runs live on. A cynical reviewer observed of her new TV network, that even her documentaries focus on triumph and redemption “person… Read More ›