Insights, science, and real stories to help you understand your gut — and transform your health.
You got a gut health test done. Good for you, that's already more than most people manage. But now you're staring at a report full of "alpha diversity," "calprotectin," "zonulin," and "SCFA profile," wondering if you need a PhD to read your own results. You don't. These biomarkers are simpler than they sound. Each one…
Say you're trying to work out why your office isn't productive. One approach: photograph the room and count how many people are at their desks. Now you know who's present. You still have no idea who's actually working, who's scrolling Instagram, who's stuck with a crashed laptop, and who's quietly doing the work of three.…
A mechanic who checks the oil, finds it fine, and declares the car healthy hasn't diagnosed the weird noise you came in for. Checking one thing and stopping is a shortcut, not a diagnosis. That's roughly how gut health gets handled now. One test, one data point, one sweeping conclusion. Your stool test shows decent…
You've been bloated for months. Maybe years. You've cut gluten, dropped dairy, sipped warm water at dawn, chewed fennel after every meal. A few things helped a little, briefly. Nothing really fixed it. So you saw a doctor. Got an ultrasound, maybe an endoscopy. Everything came back "normal." And yet your stomach still feels like…
