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Become a stool donor, for FMT (Fecal Microbiota Transplants) or research
Becoming a stool donor
Complete the screening questionnaire.
Complete verification of stool type and physical fitness.
A video interview.
Stool and blood testing. Paid for by us or the recipient.
Get paid $500 per stool. If you’re having a bowel movement every day it can total $180,000 per year.
Most recipients will probably be ordering stool via dry ice shipping. The costs of which will be covered by them.
Donors are prepaid for everything. We receive the order and payment from the recipient, then pass it on to the donor, the donor then prepares it and ships it out.
By default, we also keep donors completely anonymous from recipients, in order to maintain your privacy.
Our mission, and why you should sign up to be a stool donor:
Chronic disease and general poor health have been drastically increasing over the past decades to the point where the vast majority of the population is now extremely unhealthy. It goes well beyond a single generation being a little overweight due to eating too much. It is an exponentially worsening crisis with each generation, in large part due to the loss of our host-native microbes that get passed down generationally [1-5].
This not only leads to a large amount of suffering and death for both adults and children, but it also has drastic societal detriments when the vast majority of people are poorly functioning.
Restoring the gut microbiome via FMT (fecal microbiota transplants)
Recent microbiome research discoveries have given hope of addressing these major problems [6-8]. But in order to do so, we need the tiny 0.1% of people who are still healthy enough to qualify as high-quality stool donors to sign up and start donating their stool.
While many other operations have a primary financial motivation, our motivation is fixing people and fixing society. We aim to find the fewer than 0.1% of people who qualify, and connect them with doctors, researchers, hospitals, clinical trials, and individuals.
You can be a stool donor on your own schedule
We operate on supply & demand, so you’re welcome to set your own availability & prices. You can choose if you want to make daily donations, or if you are too busy, to wait only for a large clinical trial. After screening 26,000 donor applicants and still not getting the quality of donor we’re looking for, we’ve increased our default prices and payouts to $500 per stool sample ($180,000/yr). But if that is not sufficient payment for your time, you are able to set whatever price you would like. We cannot solve this problem without you.
Will you be a part of the solution?
1. https://web.archive.org/web/20190423130243/https://www.mdedge.com/ccjm/article/189671/infectious-diseases/our-missing-microbes-short-term-antibiotic-courses-have-long
2. https://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/2_background/en/
3. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/11/the-rise-of-chronic-disease/
4. https://www.ncsl.org/print/health/DHoffmanFF08.pdf
5. https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/infographic/chronic-diseases.htm
6. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01510/full
7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4895930/
8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284325/
Stool Donor Interviews
What are the basic stool donor qualifications?
Donors must be in exceptional physical and mental health. Ideally, top young athletes.
Ideally, donors would be under 30 years old. Donors can be under 18 provided they have signed consent from their parents. Many children need FMT, and we'd like to match those children with young donors. We don’t currently have a minimum age.
Donors should have minimal antibiotic use.
A specific Bristol Stool Type.
We’re accepting donors from anywhere in the world where they have access to dry ice.
Ready to take the first step?
Fill out our health questionnaire to see if you qualify!
What is the general process of donating stool?
Collect your stool directly in a zip-lock bag.
Ship on dry ice, or optionally, store multiple samples in the freezer to ship together.
If there is a recipient local to you, you may agree on a local pickup routine.
A simple collection kit can be used if your bowel movements are typically not at home:
You can store the ice pack and zip lock bag inside the insulated lunch bag. You can leave the kit in the freezer overnight and then take it with you during the day.
If you are willing, some recipients may request for the stool to be mixed with an antifreeze solution. Some may request for the stool to be encapsulated. These are optional, and you may charge what you feel your extra time is worth.
All equipment, materials, shipping costs, and dry ice will be paid for by us or the recipients.