• Catoblepas
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    Excited DIYers running out before doing research: please note that in a medical setting something like half of potential donor poops wind up rejected because of unsuitable bacteria living in the gut that could make you sick.

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      “What do you do for a living?”

      “My poops are the right kind of poops. So doctors pay me to take my poops so others can eat them.”

      “…what?”

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      Yup, see also the specimen preparation section of the linked Wikipedia article