TLDR

Help to find super donors for Fecal Microbiota Transplants (FMT)! By donating stool for FMT, exceptionally healthy people can earn $180,000/yr with little effort. Simultaneously they can help chronically ill people improve their health with a novel treatment. Apply here.

More detailed summary

Fecal Microbiota Transplants (FMTs) is a procedure that transfers the stool of healthy people to the guts of sick people. The mechanism is to replace a dysbiotic gut microbiome with an eubiotic, disease-resistant gut microbiome.

So far, FMT has only been proven to be very effective in curing patients of C. difficile infections. However, since the gut microbiome impacts and regulates virtually every aspect of human health, function, and development, FMT is a promising treatment for a very wide range of chronic and acute health conditions^[1]^[2].

FMTs can easily & safely be done at home, both for the donor and the recipient - no doctor needed.

A super-donor is a person who yields outstanding positive effects as a stool donor. Only exceptionally healthy & fit people are super-donors. They are very rare and a few people within the FMT movement have been searching for them for years. Most donors, even reasonable healthy ones, only yield modest benefits.

Human Microbes, an organization specialized in finding super-donors and connecting them with recipients, is paying super-donors $500 per stool. This adds up to $180,000/yr if donating a daily stool!

Purpose of this post

Spread the news that this opportunity for super donors exists: With little effort, they can help lots of ill people (“make them more effective”) while earning $500/stool. You should check whether you are a super donor. If you know someone who might be, please share this post with them.
Give a rough introduction to FMTs & Human Microbes, with the aim to start a rational discussion about FMT’s benefits. FMTs look very promising, but there is by no means a clear scientific consensus. I’d love for more EAs to look into this, to get more certainty about its efficacy!
If your health is suboptimal, maybe you could consider using FMTs. Not just for obviously gut health-related issues, but much more broadly than you might think. Potentially even e.g. unspecified subclinical low energy, low mood, or mental sluggishness.
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