Interesting day yesterday. Woke up and weighted myself 167.2 lbs. Had breakfast and then diarrhea all morning (X3). Previous days had been good with solid bowel movements and improving inflammation, reduction in sugar cravings, and medium good runs. That afternoon finally got the urge for bonus miles back. That is when I go out for a certain distance and end up running extra miles because I feel so good. In this case, 5.7 miles turned into 11.2 miles. No stomach issues and excellent recovery during and following the run.

Either I have some cyclic infection like giardia (unlikely), which I will have to get tested for, or the enteric coated capsules caused some dysbiosis that was finally purged yesterday (die off???). I am highly suspicious of the latter and am a little surprised to have not heard more about this in the FMT community. If there is nothing else going on I would highly recommend not using top down capsules with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). The stomach acid is an important component of introducing bacteria into the small intestines. In fact, I bet there is a link between long term PPIs use and weight gain/obesity.

I look at how I felt on my 15 mile run at Javelina (10/31/15) and how I felt yesterday and it is just a world of difference. Hips hurt at mile 10 at Javelina running 13:43 pace and nothing hurt running 8:43 for 11.2 miles yesterday. In fact, I could have done another 5.7 mile loop but I had to get back to work. If I am correct something happens in the small intestines that causes increased inflammation, sugar cravings and dulls my running impulses. My guess is enteric is too dirty for my small intestines and the immune system gets overstimulated.

I am becoming confident that there is nothing wrong with the donor material and that it takes a week or so for me to get the bad bacteria out of my small intestines using my FMCapsules. Even though I was taking the regular capsules for three day prior to Javelina run there was still inflammation. I am of the opinion that was a residual effect from the enteric capsules. Will keep working with the normal capsules and see how things go.

In other news, the beta tester is finally losing weight and reporting decreased anxiety. Donor coming next week to provide more samples.

Javelina, AZ. Pacing a Tarahumara runner.