I couldn’t be Monica’s donor because of my type 1 diabetes, so we found an online provider of screened donor stool, delivered freeze-dried as capsules. Monica took a home microbiome test in January as a baseline and logged her mood and sleep every day in eMoods.
She took her first dose of 25 capsules on February 4, then 15 capsules every few days through February 28, switching to a second donor on February 24. The first dose was hard on her stomach. By March her depressed mood was starting to ease. See the data.