Designer $hit: A Microbiome Love Story With Saffron Cassaday

Nov 14, 2023

What options are you wiling to try to manage your ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease? How about putting someone else’s stool into your own colon? Fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) — using stool from a donor to repopulate bacteria in the colon — are being studied for use in treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Filmmaker Saffron Cassady decided to try do-it-yourself FMT to treat her ulcerative colitis, using stool from the healthiest person she could find: her husband. The journey is captured in her film, Designer $hit, which explores both the science and potential behind FMT. Learn about why she decided to take a chance on FMT, how it has impacted her life, and where you can see Designer $hit.

 

Learn where you can attend a screening: https://designershit.eventive.org/schedule

 

Episode transcript and more information at: https://bit.ly/AIBD142

 

Find Saffron Cassaday and Designer $hit at:

• Web: Designer $hit
• Twitter: @Designer_Shit_
• TikTok:  @designershitdocumentary
• YouTube: Designer $hit
• Facebook: @Designer Shit
• Instagram: @designershtdocumentary

Find Amber J Tresca at:

• AboutIBD.com: About IBD
• Verywell: Verywell Health
• Facebook: @aboutIBD
• Twitter: @aboutIBD
• Pinterest: @aboutibd
• Instagram: @about_IBD

 

Find Mac Cooney (mix, sound design, and theme music) at:

• Facebook: @maccooneycomposer
• Instagram: @maccooneycomposer
• Web: Cooney Studio
• LinkedIn: @macooney
• Theme music, IBD Dance Party, is from ©Cooney Studio.

 

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