Alex, 44
This is my diploma, I am really proud that I managed to finish the studies. I keep it with the personal medication recipes. It's kind of my medicine work pile.
When I help people to get their personalised medication, I sometimes need to explain to them why I do this before they trust me. Which of course is understandable, I mean; medication is basically chemicals, if it goes wrong or people don’t know what their doing when making drugs it could end very badly. But when I explain that I was born with epilepsy and studied medicine to be able to create my own treatment, they mostly decide to take the leap.
It seems a bit messy but I am really careful in making the medication. Because I am keeping my prices as low as possible I don’t use the expensive tools that are used in the pharmaceutical companies.
Of course I could also look for a job at one of the commercial pharmacies, but I don't want to contribute to an industry that sees peoples sickness as something they can profit from.
I use Telegram to have contact with customers. Making personalised medication at home is officially illegal, but I make them anyway - people deserve a fair price for the medication they need. But I have to be careful not to get caught. I also use a pick up point if people send me their medication and never use my real name. The payments go through Dark web cryptocurrency or cash, not only because of privacy but also because I cannot register at a bank without giving my DNA away.
This is a very important spray for me. It’s actually one of the few things that make it difficult not to be registered in a bank. I need to protect my DNA so that no-one else will register my DNA in a bank or can phenotype it. So when I send the medication I clean everything with this DNA cleaning solution that I made. I also always bring a smaller version whenever I leave the house.