Monday, March 21, 2016

Need Some Extra Cash And Want To Save Some Lives? Sell Your Poop




How?
If you're hoping to monetize your foul waste to turn that brown stuff green, you'll have to go through OpenBiome, a nonprofit organization that has organized the world's first nationwide poop bank. Since its founding in 2013, the bank has processed and shipped nearly 2,000 "treatments" (read shit samples) to 185 hospitals around the country. 

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But...Why?
But why would anyone need a poop bank? For the past two years, the organization has been collecting human excrement — potentially yourhuman excrement — to administer to patients sick with a bacteria called C. difficile. A severe infection of the bacteria, which effects some 500,000 people a year, C. difficile can leave sufferers homebound with extreme gastrointestinal distress. Most of the time, one course of antibiotics is enough to curb the problem, but for some people, treatment is a little shittier.  
  
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (i.e. A Poop Transplant)

To rid patients of C. difficile for good, doctors introduce healthy fecal material into the sufferer's gut. They can do this through endoscopy, nasal tubes, or capsules. OpenBiome hopes to be the middleman, providing poop for doctors who perform the transplants.  

1 comment:

  1. I’m just trying to forget what I’ve just read… Hope to forget it as soon as possible. People go crazy, don’t they? Why do we need such a bank? What is a use of it? Into my opinion, it’s just silly. However, I think that silly and lazy people will take an advantage of this opportunity. Fortunately, today there are many great ways to make extra money and if you need extra cash, you can apply for cash till payday or find ways to make extra funds online.

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