More awful reporting on the "poop doping" claimed by Dr. Lauren Peterson

UggBeen trying to stamp out the awful reporting on the poop doping claims of Dr. Lauren Peterson. SeeIrresponsible reporting on "poop doping" from the Washington PostKudos to Bicycling Magazine for pedaling so so so much overselling of the microbiomeBut the crap keeps flowing. Here is the last - in the NY Post: Poop transplants are the final frontier in athletic doping | New York PostHere are some quotes from the story and my comments about them."The treatment helped her battle Lyme Disease, however, there was a downside."No evidence exists that this treatment helped her battle Lyme disease." “I had no microbes to help me break down food, and I had picked up bugs in the lab where I was working because my system was so weak and susceptible,”"This is reported with no caveats when there should be plenty. This is almost certainly a incorrect interpretation by her."What ’s worse, during graduate school Petersen had her digestive system tested and discovered that she was full of gram-negative pathogens. Common strains of the pathogens include E.coli and Salmonella."Almost certainly this is also a misinterpretation. Most tests such as those by American Gut which she claimed to have done would not have been able to say if she had pathogenic versions of these bugs.The results were astoundingThis implies cause and effect which has not been shown.It turns out that Petersen probably would not have been doing as well if she ’d gotten a couch potato’s poo...
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