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by iloveitaly 855 days ago
Awesome comment. I'd love to hear your take on:

1. Best place to learn more about Fecal Microbiota Transplantation

2. How do you increase SCFA-producing microbes?

3. Your take on the "everyone has SIBO and should eat hyper-fermented yogurt" https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/2019/07/how-to-make-l-reut.... This feels like mostly snakeoil sales, but the idea that probiotics are basically useless because the CFU is too low does makes sense and it seems like there is research around L. reuteri improving many IBS/SIBO symptoms.

Feel free to DM me as well—very curious about this.

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1. I only read scientific publications. No way to find anything but SEO spam on Google nowadays.

2. Some probiotics might help, not sure which or how much. FMT should help. Healthy diets should shift bacterial composition favourably, though this won't be permanent changes.

3. I don't think there's any food out there that can permanently change the microbiome composition enough to make a big difference. I doubt much if any of the L. Reuteri survived the gastric acid, and if it did, it's just one species among hundreds.