{"id":98349,"date":"2019-11-10T15:03:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T23:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-problem-with-labeling-gut-troubles-dysbiosis"},"modified":"2019-11-10T15:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T23:03:31","slug":"the-problem-with-labeling-gut-troubles-dysbiosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-problem-with-labeling-gut-troubles-dysbiosis","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Labeling Gut Troubles \u2018Dysbiosis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-problem-with-labeling-gut-troubles-dysbiosis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the first page of Heinz Koop\u2019s fecal analysis test results, a bar showed where he fell on a gradient from green to red. A label above said, in German: \u201cOverall dysbiosis.\u201d Koop was not in the green or even the yellow regions, but a worrisome orange. It was a bad result \u2014 but, he says, \u201cI was kind of happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doctors hadn\u2019t given him a satisfying answer about his recurring bloody diarrhea and other gut troubles. But Koop had learned on Facebook that he could test his gut microbiome \u2014 the community of bacteria and other organisms living in his gastrointestinal tract \u2014 to look for problems. Koop ordered a test from a German laboratory called Medivere. The results said his gut microbes were imbalanced, which was something he thought he could treat. Soon he would be attempting to correct this imbalance by chauffering a friend\u2019s fresh stool samples home to implant up his own colon.<\/p>\n<p>Trillions of microbes living on and in our bodies, especially our guts, make up our microbiome. The bugs in our bowel are not just there to slow down our poop, as one researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ajcn\/article-abstract\/23\/11\/1433\/4733072?redirectedFrom=fulltext\">speculated<\/a> in 1970, but are intricately connected to our health. Gut microbes help us digest our food, make critical vitamins, and keep pathogens out. Over the past decade or so, research into the microbiome has exploded as researchers have tried to tease apart the complex connections between our diseases and our resident microbes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first page of Heinz Koop\u2019s fecal analysis test results, a bar showed where he fell on a gradient from green to red. A label above said, in German: \u201cOverall dysbiosis.\u201d Koop was not in the green or even the yellow regions, but a worrisome orange. It was a bad result \u2014 but, he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}