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by dlss 12y ago
If you're interested in minimal usage, I'd say take it for a week, cease use until you notice something is missing, then take it for two days and repeat. When we tested this, we've found the off phase is between 0 and 14 days
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by dlss 12y ago
Sorry about that, by pseudo-FMT I was referring to these two qualities: - Extremely broad spectrum from a metabolic function point of view - The formulation was designed to nudge your microbiome toward known healthy microbiome compositions.
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by dlss 12y ago
This is a very interesting (though not new) hypothesis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21303428 is the usual citation. Neither paper has data how much of your dietary behavior is microbe related, which is a shame.
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by dlss 12y ago
This is basically kickstarter for digital goods... with shady marketing :/
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by dlss 12y ago
Completely agreed, hence wanting to donate. There are a lot of cool uses for what's essentially a kickstarter for digital goods... however by explicitly saying the illegal possibilities are a goal, all their funders are (I think /
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by dlss 12y ago
I wish they hadn't used illegal example use cases (stealing trade secrets, etc). I would have donated :-/
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A Microbe-Free World Would Suck(businessinsider.com)
1 points by dlss 12y ago|0 comments
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by dlss 12y ago
You're missing the fact that they went from something that is quite difficult to get a program to do (essentially an AI complete task) to one that's not AI complete. It doesn't really matter how many non-AI complete compone
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by dlss 12y ago
What am I missing? Breaking this looks much easier than a regular captcha... This is the sort of problem that genetic algorithms are well suited for (a small, well defined input domain with a binary oracle). You'd simply generate a ran
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by dlss 12y ago
That and a lack of consumer choice :p for example, my google searches didn't find mention of a Canadian Tesla factory.
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by dlss 12y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. Send an email to support@generalbiotics.com and we'll add you prior to the next design rev.
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by dlss 12y ago
Depends on which third party you're using. For product studies, having a University do it runs in the low 100s of thousands, having a CRO do it is mid 10s of thousands to low 100s. If you're running one that involves disease, doct
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by dlss 12y ago
Alas. Shipping microbes across borders is a tricky business. It takes about 30 days to get a decision one way or another, we are prioritizing lawyer time using the wait list: http://eepurl.com/5qS9z
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by dlss 12y ago
I'm the CEO of GeneralBiotics.com, we sell a probiotic created using Human Microbiome Project datasets (our CTO did his postdoctoral work there). The product is not a DIY FMT, but serves a similar function (restore missing aggregate me
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by dlss 12y ago
Makes sense. I'd expect the bitcoin owning population to have many more ABP users than the general population though. Re: adding a black box. It looks like just not using "mc_embed_signup" and "mc-embedded-subscribe-form
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by dlss 12y ago
FYI, the register form doesn't display for adblock plus users -- forms usually do, so this was quite confusing. It looked like you weren't accepting new users.
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by dlss 12y ago
Error 1008 for me.
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by dlss 12y ago
> They are using the yogurt rule Ahh, you mentioned Autism spectrum, so I assumed that couldn't be the case. > we have metagenomics on them (v4 rDNA sequence reads) not full seq data There is plenty of genomic data beyond 16S. Fo
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by dlss 12y ago
Interesting. To be clear, the current state of affairs is eating sterilized food (often required by law to control pathogens), and taking antibiotics every 2 years[1]. This is bad a priori, since it's two deviations from the only known
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by dlss 12y ago
So I can't speak to the specifics of the startups you're referring to (I don't know who they are), but I will say I'm very surprised to have read this. The responsible development of new therapies is almost always a good
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by dlss 12y ago
This article doesn't seem to consider the alternative hypothesis very seriously, so as one of the biohackers Ed is no doubt referring to, I'll do my best to summarize why it's not unreasonable to act before all the data is in
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by dlss 12y ago
If anyone is curious about the Kimmel clip, it's on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjaQ17yAww The article makes a lot more sense after watching it IMO.
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by dlss 12y ago
It's open source https://github.com/kevinmcalear/hater_news Looks like a counted bag of words + https://github.com/kevinmcalear/hater_news/blob/master/its_p... are fed into a l
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US research ethics agency upholds decision on informed consent(blogs.nature.com)
2 points by dlss 12y ago|0 comments
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Fixing Moral Hazards in Business Science(lesswrong.com)
1 points by dlss 12y ago|0 comments
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by dlss 12y ago
Hi, David (a co-founder) here. Thank you tremendously for this feedback :) We don't want to go the prescription route, so we stuck with general claims. I'll see what I can do to be more specific. We can absolutely answer some of t
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by dlss 12y ago
I am hoping for comprehensibility feedback. I have seen a lot of interest in probiotic/digestive articles lately, so I think there are people on here who should be interested. What are we missing? What do you want to know that we aren&
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Show HN: Take Control of Your Microbiome(generalbiotics.com)
13 points by dlss 12y ago|6 comments
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by dlss 12y ago
It depends what you're using the feces to accomplish. Usually FMT is done for people suffering from CDiff infections. The healthy gut flora outcompete the CDiff, causing the infection to go away. Mother's milk is mostly viruses, s
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by dlss 12y ago
Clear patterns did arise when the Human Microbiome project did this :) http://academy.asm.org/images/stories/documents/FAQ_Human_Mi... That represents the consensus view (ie no exotic theories). The really go

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