Before you overhaul your diet based on a stool test, here's what actually moves your gut health, no kit required.

Measurements of prokaryotic absolute abundance can provide important insights into human gut microbiome biology and correct misinterpretations of relative abundance data. Despite the existence of ...

Everyone's mailing in stool samples for a gut report, but can an at-home microbiome test actually tell you anything?

The lack of replicability of microbiome studies is a barrier to understanding how host–microbe interactions contribute to physiological homeostasis and pathophysiological processes, including heart ...

At-home gut health tests use DNA or RNA sequencing from a stool sample. Testing your gut health cannot replace an official diagnosis from a doctor. Your results may provide insights into gut ...

Healthcare professionals consider a healthy pancreatic elastase level above 200 micrograms per gram (mcg/g). Pancreatic elastase is the digestive enzyme that the pancreas produces to help digest food.