Getting Paid to Poop!

Hey there! How’s it going for you so far today? Glad you could spiral down out of cyberspace for a mug of coffee and a virtual treat. Try a mega bran muffin, why don’t’cha? It’s a perfect lead in to today’s topic...Getting paid to poop! 

"Oh, there he goes...off again on poop!"

"Well yeah, but hey, it’s in the name of science!"

Already, healthy people can donate blood, sperm and eggs, but now the nonprofit OpenBiome offers donors $40 for bowel movements -- to supply "fecal transplants" for patients with nasty C. difficile bacterial infections. 

("Healthy" contents are transplanted into the infected gut via endoscope or frozen swallowed capsules so that the good bacteria drive out the antibiotic-resistant bad.) 

Over 2,000 transplant units have been shipped to 185 hospitals so far, and OpenBiome allows daily "donations" so that, with bonuses, a donor could earn $13,000 a year.

However, extensive medical questioning and stool-testing is required, and only about 4 percent of potential donors have exquisite-enough feces to qualify. [Washington Post, 1-29-2015]

"Hey...I can bring a stool sample!"

See ya, eh!

Bob...sitting down on the job!