Stool analysis and personalized nutrition

Traditional medicine didn’t pay much attention to nutrition – and still doesn’t. But research has exploded in the past five years pointing to the importance of the gut microbiome to overall health and the ways in which food can affect it.

Low-calorie, low-fat approaches and eat this-or-that don’t work. When it comes to nutrition, “we got a lot of amazing advice that got us nowhere.”

Gut health depends on the complex interaction between the food we eat and the microbes that live in the gut. There are 26,000 chemicals in food that combine with more than 1,000 different types of microbes in the gut and then mix in the blood with the body’s own chemistry to affect 20,000 genes and other metabolic pathways. A small change and the whole system can shift, which can cause long-term problems, but also be a solution to the problem.

In general, the healthiest diet is not restrictive, but rather diverse and includes many brightly colored plants with high polyphenol content. Red-tipped broccoli is better than green, he says; purple carrots are better than orange ones. It is best to avoid eating routines like eating the same salad or sandwich every day, eat a balanced diet and be aware of the fact that there is no such thing as universally healthy food.

References:

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[2] Klimenko, Natalia S., Alexander V. Tyakht, Anna S. Popenko, Anatoly S. Vasiliev, Ilya A. Altukhov, Dmitry S. Ischenko, Tatiana I. Shashkova et al. “Microbiome responses to an uncontrolled short-term diet intervention in the frame of the citizen science project.” Nutrients 10, no. 5 (2018): 576.

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Stool analysis and a personalized diet plan takes place remotely in 5 steps: from sending the analysis package to your home address, taking a stool sample and sending it to the laboratory to the analysis result arriving at your email address in the form of a detailed report on the state of the intestines and personalized recommendations for nutrition and conversations with a nutritionist who conducts them through the results and answers to all questions.