Nutrition brand looking for world’s first ‘Poommelier’ to smell faeces for Rs 1.48 lakh
A nutrition brand is on the hunt for someone who aspires to be the first professional ‘Poommelier’— an expert in identifying digestive health issues right at the source by smelling faeces.
Feel Complete, a gut-health consultancy services company based in Stroud, the UK, is paying trainees with “the right nose for” stinkers £1,500 (Rs 1.48 lakh) to smell poop, with one candidate eventually getting the role — a perfect metaphor for a job number 2.
“Being a poo expert might not be top of everyone’s list, but finding and training the world’s first ‘Poommelier’ is a way for us to take a serious issue like gut health and have a little fun with it,” Aaron Providence, CEO of Feel Complete, explained in a news release.
Nutrition experts have long known that a change in bowel habits is a massive giveaway of digestion problems, with noticeable deviations in shape, smell, colour, texture and the regularity of your stool indicating infections, bleeding and some more serious health issues.
Lead nutritionist Hannah Macey said while “nobody’s poo smell good” some particularly foul-smelling faeces with other visual indicators are signs of poor gut health Feel Complete swears by in its diagnosis.
“An imbalance of your gut bacteria, known as dysbiosis, may result in more methane gas being produced by your gut, which may be detectable either as unpleasant smelling wind or poo,” she explained.
"Certain food intolerances such as lactose intolerance, certain gut infections, or inflammatory bowel disease may also result in extremely bad smelling stools. If you have any changes in your bowel movements it’s important to see a GP or gut health expert.”
Faecal matter fanatics looking to apply for the job must be aged 18 or above and sign up for training to be the first Poommelier that begins March 2023.
