TBD | 2024 In Review: Would You Buy Poop On the Internet?

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🗓️ 27 December 2024

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“Fecal microbial transplants” treat someone’s unhealthy gut with poop from someone else’s healthy gut, and proponents of FMT claim it can help treat everything from IBS to autism. But if your doctor isn’t ready to fill you up with someone else’s poop, the internet will happily oblige. Guest: Luke Winkie, Slate staff writer who published “The Poop Broker.” Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Disclosure in Podcast Description: A Bond Account is a self-directed brokerage account with Public Investing, member FINRA/SIPC. Deposits into this account are used to purchase 10 investment-grade and high-yield bonds. As of 9/26/24, the average, annualized yield to worst (YTW) across the Bond Account is greater than 6%. A bond’s yield is a function of its market price, which can fluctuate; therefore, a bond’s YTW is not “locked in” until the bond is purchased, and your yield at time of purchase may be different from the yield shown here. The “locked in” YTW is not guaranteed; you may receive less than the YTW of the bonds in the Bond Account if you sell any of the bonds before maturity or if the issuer defaults on the bond. Public Investing charges a markup on each bond trade. See our Fee Schedule. Bond Accounts are not recommendations of individual bonds or default allocations. The bonds in the Bond Account have not been selected based on your needs or risk profile. See https://public.com/disclosures/bond-account to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	Hey everyone, it's Lizzie.
0:46.8	Earlier this year, Slate's Luke Winky wrote a story all about poop.
0:52.2	Okay, technically it's actually about what's called FMT fecal microbiota transplant,
0:58.2	which, to put it as simply as possible, is the process of getting someone else's poop inside your body
1:04.9	to fix problems with your gut. What Luke found was an unregulated marketplace for buying other people's poop and a DIY community that was desperate for relief, often after the traditional medical system had failed them.
1:20.4	So yes, it is a story about poop, but it's also a story about our broken health care system, and the lengths people will go to to find the care
1:28.4	that they need. I hope you enjoy it.
1:35.2	A few months ago, my colleague Luke Winky met a woman named Alexandra.
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