New culture and in 15 minutes, thats part of our Community Life on the research is now on the go go, go, go, please, quickly, before i so the pieces my life with all sort of collects an auto immune disease that attacks because of my condition. Pit slips like this or regular stuff and i saw you last on but 2 months ago. The last time when your year who are having some symptoms. Again, i know you have some in a blood mucus and you know, sometimes diarrhea. My gastroenterologist, dr. Kim sees a lot of patients with my condition, many who require surgery and hospitalization. In comparison to these more severe cases, i sometimes feel that he views my concerns as trivial, but you look to the is not as severe as you know, other folks. I mean, your lifes not in any way singularly impaired, right . Because of the condition or this is my life severely impaired . Well, i spend close to 500. 00 a month on medication. Some are taken orally, and some are taken. Rectally, shook it up. Pop it in. You could do it on your left side or just feeling frisky, face down. Sometimes i have to take more severe drugs like steroids, which include side effects like acne and hair loss. While these medications help, theyre not full proof. I have good days and bad days, and the longer i struggle with this illness, the more frequent and severe the bad they seem to get. Obviously this makes me a very annoying person to share a bathroom with thank god, i have an understanding partner. Like its obviously like a frustrating thing to be dealing with. Its frustrating. See your best buddy. Suffer. Yeah. So back to dr. Times question is my life severely impaired . My life isnt severely imperative. It is slightly impaired though 5 years of pain defied, no pun intended, you may need to change your mind said i dont want to believe that its just chronic and will be forever. So i just always hold of this hope that one day to figure out. I hope i hope so. In the future someone will find a cure, elective, magical wandering for that to show this of were having fun curia. He says that, but im always looking for ways to disprove them. I dream of being one of those people who bio hacks their health with a natural solution. And i wonder if this might be it a field transplant sounds like a pretty nasty joke. Someone else has faces, could save your life. Maybe youve heard about taking this to a sample from a healthy donor and transferring it into the got the recipient, but animal or capsule. The idea that the bacteria inner guts could play a role in auto immune diseases like mine, as well as autism, depression, obesity and more has been catching up. In the past 10 years, theres been a rapid boom in this area of medical research. The problem is, who is not yet fda approved and were still not entirely sure how or if it works. Maybe one day if your doctor will be able to prescribe it. For now, its only available through Clinical Trials. When i hear successful gi i why stories like this, it makes me think why not meet the eye fly, which one is disgusted . So do i wait for big pharma to turn it into a pill . Or do i take matters into my own hands . Now, after dealing with this book for 9 years, im not willing to wait any longer. And im curious about people transplant because i have heard anecdotal stories of people who are able to get off medication and because of the case reports and i need to replace it. But i need proof from centurylink. You know, i think i twice, you know, what i figured you would say that, okay, i dont think i have any more questions. I dont wanna waste your time. Could i get a prescription . You know, i dont ever want to have to ask him for another prescription again. So ive got to find a way to source my own product. If i want to get off all these meds, i need to figure out what went wrong with my body and the 1st place i started out as a normal healthy kid. What went wrong . Is it all linked to this micro biome . Everyone is pausing about the call when you get back to your area that lives in our guts. This thing is like an organ that we have just discovered that we didnt know existed. Its as if we discovered the liver for the 1st time, and were just starting to understand its function in the body. We realizing there is quite a number of diseases that actually are associated with having less microwave. So less diversity in your micro bottom. So you have less microtubule chains. Auto immune disease is to obesity and metabolic syndrome and punish about disease metabolic syndrome. A tracy multiple slurries has parkinsons, regressive autism, anxiety and depression. So all those people suffering from these conditions might have a lack of bacteria to blame. How did this happen . We have this increased incidence of all deciding and diseases like an epidemic Infectious Disease when down, i mean, if you want to visit didnt happen because we change genetics genes dont change that fact. Something happened in the environment and living in a world that really isnt conducive to improving and promoting micro well diversity and the best way that i think we know how to, based on what the science is showing that the rest of the week is pretty bad for the micro diamond if you will micros control cuz they would tell you, please eat no 5, the farmers would eat food with the dirt still on it from the field. How much is the normal micro well diversity were people getting from that . We dont do that today. I mean, you cant think of not watching your food today nowadays, we sanitizer food as well as our hands and our homes on a regular basis. Weve become so afraid of the bugs that can harm us, that weve inappropriately shielded ourselves from the ones that can actually help us. And balance of the perfect example of this is antibiotics. I cant imagine it as like this. You know, me rolling through what ref mustve corresponds you just dont know whats going to survive and how much 90 boss has to live saving drugs. So its never say to take 100 politics because they havent been use very much additionally and the cost and i think so that were suffering damage that is being closed plants are going to take this sort of compounding of these generations so that now people like you know i, whos been exposed, trying to volunteer on whose parents to be in in space. 20 boss is probably have less microtubule diversity than our ends, just as he never saw an antibiotic before. And the long it seems like many kids today are already at a disadvantage. By simply being born at the tail end of several generations engaging and routine antibiotic use. Among other things, the moment youre born, the 1st dose of hopeful that curious comes through the way your delivered all that gross lined covering a baby on its way into this world. Were only now realizing how important that is to establish an unhealthy colony of bacteria in the got. It seems like everyone in the western world has been exposed to at least some of these micro biome depleting factors. The question is can people transplant save us the to meet mark smith and Caroline Edelstein looked into the flood. There an impressive young couple that sells poop for living. Believe me, its cooler than it sounds. It all started 5 or 6 years ago when my cousin got seed us, he ended up shooting himself at home with a single transplant using his roommate stool. And it was from that experience that mark who is working on related research at the time really got the idea. First of all bank hold on and my cousin got see this. Let me explain that real quick. See this or see that the cell is a bacterial infection that wreaks havoc on your duct. This is not your average stomach buck. It can be deadly. The 1st line of treatment for see this is antibiotics. You know, till all the bad bacteria thats causing the infection. But in recent decades, seated has become more virulent and difficult to treat. Its kind of crazy that antibiotics which are like an atomic bomb for bacteria, or losing power against this got infection. And fiegel transplant which works the opposite way by inserting good bacteria into the got into or see different with a 90 percent success rate. Its astounding how well it works for this particular illness. And mark and caroline believe fecal transplants could unlock answers to more conditions beyond fetus. The greatest ambition that we have some organization that i have for, for, for my career, is here. We can try to reverse some of the broad trends and increasing these 2 things that basically didnt exist 50 years ago. Well, if they believe fiegel transplants could potentially trade in illness like mine, maybe they can help me out if i wanted to do with them to, you know, would i be able to buy store samples from your lab directly . No. Yeah, we will only providers samples to clinicians and specifically to connections for performing the procedure for patients who have see death and who have failed 2 or more rounds of antibiotics. Thats right. See this is the only condition fiegel trans that is currently approved for other conditions or still in the research phase. You may be fortunate to have a Clinical Trial going on near you for your condition that you qualify for. If not, youre literally out of luck. And so we did have some people steak out our parking lot, trying to figure out who our donors were and trying to approach them directly. Yeah, and i understand why open biome is known for having the most elite store donors. The day after my screening was done and the store sample was passed, this is a 3 percent chance of getting into this still donation program. And thats a bit more difficult than it is to get into harvard. So it was, uh, it was definitely something that was exciting. And a great thing to be partner with us is october. Um and since then hes donated about 20 to nice little symbols. Thats about 10 samples a week at 40 bucks. A pop. Kershawn is breaking in about 400. 00 a week. There was a little part time job. Well, open biome wont give out their exact criteria, list natural pads to help people source their own donors can give us an idea of what to look out for. And its a lot because what happens and it gets doesnt stay in the get. It affects everything your brain and affecting your joints, pen affecting your skin. So really i have people looking for the healthiest person that they can find. That would be my partner. I always considered as a Pretty Healthy person, but i never thought of him in terms of donor eligibility. Someone who is not obese, it doesnt have any chronic or acute disease, no chronic Infectious Disease, no mood disorders, no history of cancer, know Metabolic Diseases or Chronic Fatigue or chronic pain, send drones. Al checks, all those boxes that can have had antibiotics and at least 6 months they need to have a form bound moving every day or almost every day. And they need to not engage her behaviors to put the risk of infectious to the ok. Hes good on all those to in addition, i tell people a daily you want a donor, so was badly delivered. And breast fred, who is clear skin and clear thinking. And were just as a health superstar, its a diet that is whole fluids based with diverse fiber fluids in there and is athletic. We are active. And when i go through that whole list, people say, where do you find anybody on earth that fits all those criteria . But we find them i guess i dont need open biome after all. I already share a bathroom with a Great Potential donor. Wait a minute, what am i doing . This is weird. This is disgusting. And i would be so embarrassed if i tried it and failed. When it comes to these d i why Success Stories i see online. My biggest question is, how do you even get the guts to try . It was the end of the line for me where i was like, i have to do this if i want to be able to have a life. Cuz whats the point of living is this is my life Charlie Curtis d i y fiegel transplant at home using his mothers guy as a donor who is going to the bathroom so much 40 times today. It could hardly walk, so it was a disgusting disease that was awful. A couple of months earlier, i was having gears with my buddies and having a good time university. And then next thing, you know, im like, living in the hospital, i lost like 75 to a 100 pounds. And i have doctors in front of me who are arguing about efficient taking my call in out or not. And for me, i knew i was done, and i knew i had to try something. And im sure that youve tried it. A 100 things, right . The difference between me and this guy is, im not hospitalized. My doctor thinks i should be happy to be able to manage my condition with this medication. But this medication isnt making me better to band aid. Soon ill be moved up to a higher class of drugs. And what happens when that fails . Well, you know, i cant, i cant downplay the medical system, but did the medical system here save my life and give me my life back . No, they werent even encouraging me to do my own research on it. It was a dead stop. So sky took a leap of faith and reached out to dr. Brody on australia and gastroenterologist, who has performed more fecal transplant procedures than anyone in the world because they dont face the same f d a restrictions there. Every doctor ive spoken to so far has been against the idea of taking on this procedure, d i y. But what is the guy whos overseen more than 16000 of these procedures have to say about it . So patients have collides as i would certainly want them to find a doctor who will sit device but just stop in person. Getting better is not a physician is wrong, because you need to get better at a time when history doesnt have to mix use to do this with kind of legislation. Within like a week or 2 i subs bleeding later i started to gain a little bit of weight. It gave me a new, you know, start button on life, which im grateful for, no symptoms and no medication, no symptoms and no medication. Its something that i would do a 100 times over in my life. I feel like i have a new system. I feel like i have a new body like a new digestive system and i feel like its working on my behalf now. Me, which is great. I feel normal again. I dont remember what its like to feel normal over the past 10 years. Its been ingrained in my mind that i will never feel normal again. It seems like you have to believe i could never end up cured like charlie, which county has a unique situation. And he had a unique novice. Most important is a mouse and theres my kids. He is a martian and i look to him and kind of go, oh my god, youre so lucky. It just the one last to prove theres life when miles. So here i am choosing to believe it could work. Im terrified of what it might feel like to be proven wrong, but im willing myself to try anyway. 2 i do have something important to ask you and it has to do with this documentary that were making. I just want to start by saying, im very grateful to have years. My partners are so kind and so generous. A very hillary no good. Good will also have a great metabolism. You have no history of serious illness. You havent had any antibiotics for over 20 years. You havent gone to any Foreign Countries in the past 5 years. Im working on it. Does he have a passport . Its not like im, you know, some hillbillies was want to travel or kind of stuff. Okay. All of this to say did you make me the happiest girl in the world and be nice to me for real. Yes. Sure. Yeah. Do you want some . Ill give you some buddy. Youll see mice. Yeah. So ill give you search. Im your donor think. Yeah, thats it. Thats what yeah. How . Larrys. Im down being somebody. Yeah. The 1st just to get out tested. I know where hes been, but it can never be to say the good is going on. Bio hazards. That sensitive well out goes home to put up into these bio hazard containers. Im moving on to step to gathering supplies. The fast plastic gloves lender 1999 milkshake functions. Movie function. Thats all i need for supplies are locked and loaded but we still havent gotten the all clear yet on our blood install test. So on to step 3, waiting for the call, the we finally found the doctors who agreed to run test on as blood and store. Okay. Thank you. The good. Good. So, was this the green light i was looking for. Honestly, its more like an amber, but im already in the intersection. I guess we got a barrel through. So what does that mean so that nobody wants to star good cleared for take off. The next step is on oh, i felt like approved midwife. I have a patient fly in from another part of the world or another state in the United States and say ok, im here for f m t. And the donor would not have a balance of it until like 9 oclock at night. Because you just cant predict that. And so they call me and they say the eagle has landed and i call up the patient. Ill be there in one hour. When i left the apartment 2 hours ago, all so if you may or may not have a deposit is waiting for me when i get past the hey hows it going . Good. How are you . Good. Good. Anything for me . Yeah, i was in the fridge. They put it in the fridge. Yeah, i said to give a fresh antenna ball in a ziploc bag and then uh, another bag as well. And then as in the bottom drawer. Is it good . Is it enough . Yeah, yeah, its not yeah, sure. Yeah, no more. No. Okay, so lets get into a blended up. Lets get the hazmat suits out. Lets do it. With all the prep work done. Theres only one thing left to do with the way i started. It was also pretty broad. Goes to the blender pushing button 1st time i did it, i regret it. I didnt have a no rang. Im under pretty disastrous fix next time with a face shield as well. The 1st time i made gravy, i called my aunt and asked her how to do it. Her directions were clear and concise, and i made great grade the 1st time. I couldnt really call my aunt about blending to spoons of to into the bottom of the blender. And i caught my breath and calmly poured the bottle of sterile se line solution over the pool until it was just covered. Then i press liquefy, and i watched with a sort of horrified lea is my poor turned into well, frankly, it looked like crazy. I stared at it, thinking it patty would be proud of me for making such as smooth looking gravy. Then i jolted back to reality. What a mess . First i wash my hands for far longer than the recommended 10 seconds. Then i spent quite a long time cleaning up the bathroom floor, waiting down the sides of the toilet and busing. The tops was to add a septic white. I finished press spring, my whole body was slice off. Not really. I felt like it though. And then i looked at what i done. It was perfect. I did, it very was lying on the futon, hiding behind the curtain side rig that i figured it had to work. I had to believe that i didnt really have an option. My other option was my son was gonna lose his colon. And that wasnt an option, so i had to believe that for what are the chances that this is going to work for me, the way it worked for charlie, though we dont have any conclusive answers yet. Data from Clinical Trials starting to paint a clearer picture. Fortunately for me, all sort of coll