[chkaloon]

Can we just keep taking courses of scorched earth antibiotics until we come up with a microbiome combo that feels good?

[orionsbelt]

Anecdotally, that generally seems to make things worse, not better.

[bhaney]

I did this years ago and it seemed to work, but n=1. It took two cycles of antibiotics and intentional introduction of "good bacteria" before I landed on something that seemed to fix most of my food intolerances. Didn't seem to have any impact on anxiety.

I learned later that this is pretty dangerous to attempt, since you're very likely to give yourself c diff or some other infection and end up with persistent IBS before you land on a good microbiome.

[SketchySeaBeast]

Where does having solid stool sit in comparison to not having social anxiety?

[Der_Einzige]

Given that it'll cure the latent chlamydia and gonorrhea that people have - not to mention the cat toxiplasmos - lets do it!