Intestinal Microbiota Transplantation in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

Inclusion Criteria: * Diagnosis of Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF) or Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), New York Heart Association Class II-IV * On stable treatment for CHF for one month prior to enrollment * Able to swallow capsules * Able to provide blood sample and fecal sample * Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of trial to follow-up by telephone, in-person, email, and/or video visits or correspondence. Exclusion Criteria: * Dysphagia to pills * Clinically active inflammatory bowel disease * History of celiac disease * Listed for transplant, and anticipated transplant listing or LVAD placement in the next 6 months * Acute myocarditis * Infiltrative and hypertrophic cardiomyopathies * Renal disease requiring dialysis * Pregnancy or breastfeeding. A pregnancy test will be obtained from females of child-bearing potential at the screening visit or day 1 (prior to the receipt of IMT). Patients with a positive pregnancy test will be excluded. A negative result will be required for subjects who are females of child-bearing potential to receive IMT treatment. Patients will be counseled to avoid pregnancy which is the standard of care for patients with CHF. * Life expectancy of \< 6 months * Presence of ileostomy or colostomy * Patients on immunosuppressants (calcineurin inhibitors, prednisone ≥ 20 mg/day, methotrexate, azathioprine, immunosuppressive biologics, JAK inhibitors). * Patients with neutropenia (an absolute neutrophil count \< 0.5 x 109 cells/L) obtained on a complete blood count with differential at screening * History of solid organ or bone marrow transplant * Anticipated recurrent antibiotic use (patients with frequent urinary tract infections or sinusitis) * History of severe anaphylactic food allergy * Patients receiving cancer chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiation