About Donations

MeBO Research hopes to raise money in various ways. To begin with, the following strategies will be followed, although it is always open to change:

  1. Initial funds are only expected to be received from private donations. Moneys raised from donators will be used initially for informal case studies , such as testing one or more for leaky gut, or gut ecology, etc, in order to attempt to make a breakthrough in profiling fecal body odor.
  2. It will initially focus on Fecal body odor since this is the most common form.
  3. Transparency: All spending plans by the company will be shown on the website.
  4. The website will regularly keep people updated on all aspects of the fund, including amount raised and all spending costs. The fund will be transparent aside from donators private information.
  5. MeBO Research Director, Maria de la Torre, has sole access to the money and is the only one capable of making withdrawals.
  6. In the long-term, MeBO hopes to involve private and public funding organizations and professional researchers.
  7. Any major benefactors may contact MeBO Research privately if they wish.

If sufficient funds are not raised, the alternative would be to maintain the status quo, i.e., waiting for the scientific / medical system to come up with significant funding and research for us on its own initiative, which is a very unrealistic possibility.

Privacy through Paypal

At the moment we know of no way to donate online anonymously. If anyone knows of a way, please let us know.

By donating via PayPal, the following information is shown depending on which way you choose to donate:


Using the donate button: Full name and address is shown to recipient.
It is possible for the donation to be refunded under paypal guidelines.
Sending a 'gift' from inside your PayPal account (PayPal.com) to meboresearch@gmail.com: Full name and email address is shown.
Money cannot be refunded.

Current amount raised




Total balance raised:
(all currencies, including available and pending amounts):

330.00 British Pound Sterling = 546.99 US Dollar

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION!



Updated: 11NOV09

Planned spending

Provisional ideas for testing strategies :

MeBO-Biolab gut dysbiosis study

Biolab has agreed to help us to a group of tests that are associated with gut dysbiosis.
Volunteers need to pay for their own tests and fill in a brief questionaire
The tests are :
Indicans : urine test (£ 13)
Gut fermentation test : blood test (£ 46)
D-lactate blood test : (£ 12)
Gut permeability test : (£ 75)
see this blog post for details

*5 people tested for Hydrogen sulfate urine test : estimated cost $200
*5 people tested for leaky gut
*Volunteer does extensive Biolab Medical Unit (UK). See our interview with Mark Howard, Manager, Biolab in our blog. Testing at around 300 GBP

One of MeBO's aims is to develop a rapport with specialty labs to enable informal case studies to be as reasonably priced as possible (and some possibly free). The idea is to promote a testing culture and look for clues. The alternative is to maintain the status quo (e.g. waiting for the medical system to come up with something for us on its own initiative).