The Goal
- Safe Accessible Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) for all who need it
The Mission
- To raise community awareness about FMT & the human microbiome
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To offer a FMT resource for e-Patients by e-Patients
- To provide a database of clinics that offer FMT
- To provide responsible DIY information
- To collect FMT success stories that will instigate research and media interest
- To unite those who share a common interest in FMT outside of the scientific-medical community (e-Patients, carers, donors, lobbyists)
- To become redundant once safe accessible FMT is available for all who need it
Target Audience
- People with digestive & related illness
- Carers of those with digestive & related illness
- Clinics wanting to alert e-Patients to their services
- Health practitioners interested in the patient viewpoint
- Scientists looking for research participants
- Mainstream media
Writers
- Anyone who can promote The Goal in a lucid responsible manner.
- Writers may have a vested interest provided it is fully disclosed.
- Writers to be credited and linked to their contact details or blog.
Ethics & Professionalism
- The reputation of FMT to be paramount
- Information sources to be quoted at all times
- Unsubstantiated claims to be avoided
- Opinion/personal experience to be framed as such
- Speculation/anecdote to be framed as such
- No medical advice
- Disclaimers to be used where necessary
- Conflict of interest to be disclosed
- The interests of digestive illness e-Patients to be paramount
Join Team PoP
Do you have a skill to offer? Do you want to make a difference? Consider joining Team PoP if you:
- are passionate about getting the word out about FMT
- want something good to come out of your illness or that of a loved one;
- are concerned about the bad-rap poop gets, considering our lives depend on it;
- want to educate others about the importance of their microbiome;
- want FMT to be safe and accessible for all who need it.
If you join Team PoP you agree to:
- Promote Safe Accessible FMT using fact-based logic. We are not quacks.
- Avoid giving medical advice. Just give people the facts and let them decide.
- Help build a supportive inclusive team. Have fun along the way.
Let me know if you can help. Our microbiome needs you and in helping to heal others, you might just heal yourself.
Tracy Mac