Poop Bank
(Boston, Massachusetts)
Are you under 50 years old, willing to make daily trips to Medford, and have regular bowel movements? You, my friend, could be earning $40 a day—just for pooping.Appears to be a really, really crappy business. In any event, I wonder if we'll see a future for-profit stool bank. Also, I personally believe my effluent is worth at least $100.
All you have to do is visit OpenBiome, launched in 2012 as the only independent nonprofit stool bank in the country. The brainchild of MIT postdoctoral associate Mark Smith, OpenBiome collects, tests, and provides fecal samples to 122 hospitals in 33 states for one of the most interesting medical treatment innovations today: fecal microbiota transplantation.
“Think of us as a blood bank, but for poop,” said Smith, who developed OpenBiome when he saw the gap in the medical structure to provide many patients with the life-saving fecal samples.
1 comment:
Not really that weird
For people with GI problems, they screen the poop, get the good bacteria put it in capsule form for people to take to fix their GI problem.
Surprising it works.
This person is trying to make money off of it.
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