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Timing is Everything: ISB Study Finds Link Between Bowel Movement Frequency and Overall Health

Posted on July 16, 2024

Everybody poops, but not every day. An ISB-led research team examined the clinical, lifestyle, and multi-omic data of more than 1,400 healthy adults. How often people poop, they found, can have a large influence on one’s physiology and health.

Building a Better BMI

Posted on March 20, 2023

ISB researchers have constructed biological body mass index (BMI) measures that offer a more accurate representation of metabolic health and are more varied, informative and actionable than the traditional, long-used BMI equation. The work was published in the journal Nature Medicine.

Using Blood to Predict Gut Microbiome Diversity

Posted on September 2, 2019

Predicting the alpha diversity of an individual’s gut microbiome is possible by examining metabolites in the blood. The robust relationship between host metabolome and gut microbiome diversity opens the door for a fast, cheap and reliable blood test to identify individuals with low gut diversity.

Timing is Everything: ISB Study Finds Link Between Bowel Movement Frequency and Overall Health

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Timing is Everything: ISB Study Finds Link Between Bowel Movement Frequency and Overall Health

Building a Better BMI

Using Blood to Predict Gut Microbiome Diversity

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