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Some people with [Crohn’s disease](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/excrement-experiment) also benefit from fecal transplants. So a company called [Open Biome](http://www.openbiome.org/) has been facilitating fecal transplants to patients in need, and paying healthy poopers a hefty sum for their services. Fecal matter is transferred either through endoscopy or swallowed capsules, and Open Biome has already shipped about 2,000 treatments to almost 200 hospitals, according to the [Washington _Post_. ](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/29/you-can-earn-13000-a-year-selling-your-poop/?tid=pm%5Fpop)They’ll pay you $40 per sample, plus an extra $50 if you come in 5 days a week (the donations have to be made on-site.) The only thing is, you have to be super-healthy: only about 4% of prospective donors make the cut. Open Biome gives their anonymous donors names like Vladimir Pootin, Albutt Einstein, and Dumpledore, to help make the poop-handling thing go a little more smoothly, according to a [_New Yorker_ ](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/excrement-experiment)piece on the poop-donation industry. So who knows? 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