Centre for Digestive Diseases calls out for faeces donors

RESEARCHERS are crying out for your faecal matter — which could earn you up to $250 a week and help fight nasty diseases.

YOU may think twice now about the golden toilet rule - “if it’s brown, flush it down” because your daily deposit could be worth some much-needed extra cash.

Poo transplants and capsules, which are being trialled to help medical conditions from autism, multiple sclerosis and chronic diarrhoea, are in such huge demand that they are offering to pay for people who can produce healthy stools, an exclusive report in the Daily Telegraph has revealed.

And with $50 for each delivery — you can make as much as $250 a week — which equates to an impressive $13,000 a year.

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You could make up to $250 per deposit. Picture: iStock

NOT BAD FOR SOMETHING YOU DO EVERYDAY, EH?

The reason for the financial incentive is that the Centre for Digestive Disease is short of donors.

Professor Thomas Borody told The Daily Telegraph that he has performs more than 12,000 Faecal Microbiota Transfers (FMT) with an average of 10 treatments a day.

But he said he could double the amount of faecal transplant enemas which costs $700 each.

The way the process works is once the bad bacteria is eliminated from the patients’ gut from taking antibiotics — the faecal transplant provides the good bacteria.

SO WHAT DOES THE PROCESS INVOLVE?

You need to fill out a form, have a blood test and also provide three stool tests.

It will be determined whether you are a suitable donor after being interviewed about your health.

A prerequisite for signing up is that you need to be a healthy weight and also eat foods including wholemeal bread and pasta, fresh vegetables, pulses and fruit and exclude corn, shellfish, prawns, oysters, salami, ham and sausages and antibiotics.

Donors need to take supplements to promote good bacteria in their bowel including apple pectin, Inulin and N-acetylglucosamine (N-A-G).

It’s also essential that you must live within about an hour of the Centre for Digestive Diseases at Five Dock, in Sydney’s inner west, because you need to deliver your plastic container of poo within a couple of hours of passing the motion.

Professor Thomas Borody says he needs more donors. Picture: News Limited

“TWO FRIENDS BENEFITED FROM POO TRANSPLANTS”

Harriet decided to become a donor after she saw her two friends, who suffered irritable bowel syndrome, benefit from the transplants.

The 23-year-old vegetarian makes $200 a week from her transactions - which she drops off on her way to work each morning.

“I’m very regular, I start work at 7am and wake at 5.30am, have a coffee and I’m every morning like clockwork,” she told the Daily Telegraph.

This is a version of an exclusive story that originally appeared on the Daily Telegraph. For more read the original story here.

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