Earn $13,000 a year by selling your poop
Earn $13,000 a year by selling your poop
OpenBiome, a Massachusetts health company, pays healthy donors for brown stuff that is up to snuff. The fecal matter is used for transplants that treat a nasty stomach bug.
Heres your chance to turn that brown stuff into serious green.
A Massachusetts health company is buying healthy peoples poop and paying up to $13,000 a year to make sure there is a steady stream of fecal matter to treat a nasty intestinal infection.
(Its) definitely something curious and funny about (being paid to defecate), says Carolyn Edelstein, an executive with the lab OpenBiome , but it's a simple idea of being able to help patients.
Said patients are suffering from Clostridium difficile infection and fecal transplants have proven very effective.
The hardest part is getting enough poop.
Donors between the ages of 18 and 50 must first pass 27 blood and stool tests just to qualify. Plus, they need to live or work near OpenBiomes Medford, Mass. offices and be able to produce at least four times a week.
Donors are re-screened every 60 days to make sure their cowpies remain up to snuff.
Getty Images/Blend Images You can get paid for this. 
OpenBiome The biggest roadblock for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation is getting enough dung.
Its a pretty invasive thing, says the non-profits co-founder James Burgess. Having an incentive program helps insure we can keep our donors.
There are currently 16 donors. They can receive up to $250 a week $40 per sample and an extra $50 if they show up five days in one week.
OpenBiome OpenBiomes frozen poop material goes out to hospitals all over the country. 
OpenBiome Healthy peoples fecal matter can help someone suffering from a nasty gut bug.
OpenBiome via YouTube Mark Smith, left, and James Burgess deal with a lot of crap on the job.
OpenBiome via YouTube The lab (fills) a gap in the public health system says James Burgess.
OpenBiome via YouTube Scientists of OpenBiome offering people in the area $250/week to donate poop.
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It's such a big commitment that it makes sense (to pay), adds Edelstein.
Its a crappy job, but somebodys got to do it. But donating dung isnt simply a matter of producing it: Just 4% of would-be stool givers are approved.
The First National Bank of Guano may make you wrinkle your nose, but C. difficile is no laughing matter. The pathogens cause diarrhea, fever, nausea and abdominal pain and antibiotics dont work for about 20% of patients. Fecal transplants can put them out of their misery.
OpenBiome processes and ships the material to hospitals around the country.
We view it as filling a gap in the public health system, Burgess says.
And it could make you flush with cash.
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Nona62
10 years ago(Its) definitely something curious and funny about (being paid to defecate), says Carolyn Edelstein, an executive with the lab OpenBiome , but it's a simple idea of being able to help patients.
I tried editing to avoid the print running into the pic's to no avail...sorry about that.
Sorry for such a $hitty article.
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Nona62
10 years ago With three very productive in the backyard Shih-Tzu mixes I'd be rich!
I have 2 Shish Tzus and my brother calls them "Shits on You"
jennilee
10 years ago
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Nona62
10 years agoMine are 6 & 8 years old and never really had a problem with them going to the bathroom inside.....of course they did it a few time, but that' abut it. Aren't Shih Tzu's awesome!!
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Nona62
10 years agoMine are sweetie pies, Bindi (the female) thinks she is Beaumont's mother, she is constantly cleaning his eyes and ears...she's a Diva also. Beaumont (the male) is just plain sweet and always happy. They are purebred,and look very much alike...they are not related at all. No show coat cuts for them either!!! They like to hang around "Daddy", more so than "Mommy"
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Nona62
10 years agoMaybe try leaving a little less food...My dogs eat at the same time 2x daily, if I left the food out I far there would be a fight, Beaumont lives to eat, and Bindi eats to live, Beaumont would try to get Bindi's food and the fight would be on.
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Nona62
10 years agoROFOL !! Isn't it a good thing that computers don't have smell-a-vision??
Kavika
10 years ago Remember, Tex my Longhorn can really drop some bombs.
''smell-a-vision''...LOL, good one Nona.
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