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A donor of what exactly - of your poop? What a weird thing... "Looking for a donor of fecal matter to participate in a study on transfer of poop from donor to

• giarc 6y ago
  Yes, I would poop into a container and deliver it to the lab. I work in Infection Control in the hospital where the lab is. I worked with Dr Louie all the time so I was an "insider", I didn't respond to any ads. For the longest time he always used family donors (husband would provide for wife or something) and I was one of the first non-related donors. I was a good candidate since I worked on site, was willing to undergo ongoing blood work and stool cultures, was young, healthy etc. My go to story is there once was a patient come up from California for treatment. Around this time there was a big news article about a patient who gained a ton of weight after receiving a transplant from her overweight mom. The patient, due to her condition, was on a strict diet and therefore it was assumed the weight gain was due to the transplant from an overweight person. That began the speculation that transplants could be used for weight control etc. Anyways, I went down to the lab to drop off my sample and the lab tech said to the patient "Hey, your donor is here, want to meet him?" and she came running around the corner, looked me up and down and just said "he's good". I felt like a real life page from a sperm donor book! This patient had heard the news and was happy I was not overweight.
• exolymph 6y ago
  Idk why this was downvoted, samstave just asked some follow-up questions that elicited an interesting response. Upvoted to attempt some counterbalance.
  • f430 6y ago
    yeah definitely noticing an uptick of downvotes after the wallstreetbet crowd arrived a week ago.