I am with you, it is totally unappealing. It won't go on my 'bucket list'.

This sounds yucky... but if a person has a gene that is resistant to say, allergies and the gene makes bacteria, can that resistance be transferred to the person who eats the cheese?? Just saying, thinking outside the box. Remember smallpox was first taken from the puss and sours of people that had smallpox and introduced to a healthy person as a prevention. This occurred in the mid to late 1700... Think outside the box

This has been going on since the 1870's with limburger cheese, made with Brevibacterium linens, the same bacteria that makes your feet stink.

This is the most repulsive idea I've seen in a while. The person who dreamed this up needs professional help.

Maybe it works the other way around? Eating stinky cheese makes you smell stinky?

@S.Michael you should maybe look up wikipedia to get the knowledge what allergies are and how the "human" bacteria come into your body (you dont produce them)

This certainly gives a whole new credence to 'Fumunda' cheese...

Mmmmm, toe jam. And did they really have to have an ad for toe nail fungus remedies right underneath this article??? 8^|

It looks like if you lack certain gut bacteria, some anti cancer drugs do not work for you. Can they possibly expand this self-made cheese idea into importing other folks' healthy gut microbiome to fight your cancer? I am all for eating cheese made from gut-healthy people's bacteria. If your gut environment is barren, would it kill the imported bacteria before they can transform your intestine?
Then again, Glyphosate in Roundup seems to suppress the biosynthesis of cytochrome P450 enzymes and amino acid by your gut, so you have to make sure the 'others-made cheese' is free of the traces of glyphosate. Is there anybody left in today's world who is free of Roundup impact?

A variety of microorganisms (bateria and fungus) are used in the production of a variety of food products on a daily basis yet nobody flinches at the prospect of consuming the majority of them.
Is it simply that these are "human" bacteria that makes them so reulsive or is there something more to it?