If you think your better half buys a lot of crap, then you might want to consider OpenBiome before starting on the criticism. The American non-profit is paying donors dollars for their doo-doo in an effort to gather more materials for fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs), a relatively new, but 90 percent effective, treatment for the debilitating Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)... Continue Reading OpenBiome will pay for poo
Section: Health and Wellbeing
Tags: Antibiotic, Bacteria, fecal transplant, Infections, Probiotic
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