Earn $13,000 A Year and Help Save Lives by Donating your Poop

If you’re looking for an extra source of income, then maybe you can consider donating your poop. By selling your frozen fecal matter, you can earn $40 per sample which can add up to $13,000 in a year. Plus you get to earn an extra $50 if you donate 5 days in a week.

In addition to the monetary benefits, you get to take part in a process that can save 14 to 13,000 lives annually.

Now how exactly does this poop business work?

Open Biome, an independent nonprofit stool bank helps patients infected with Clostridium difficile by collecting stools from healthy individuals. The infection, which is commonly acquired in hospitals , makes life difficult for patients since it causes prolonged diarrhea and inflammation of the colon. It can be treated with antibiotics but they may need to use it for a long time.

This is why the stool bank introduced Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) to give patients an option to live a normal life, as reported by RachFeed. By introducing stool from healthy individuals into the gut of the patient through capsules, nasal tubes or endoscopy, the bacteria can be eliminated for good.

However, the process is very stringent, according to the organisation’s founder Mark Smith. Only about 4% in 1,000 donors made the cut in the last two years.

The first US stool bank is currently serving 2,000 treatments to 185 hospitals in the country.