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Virtually every aspect of your health can be traced back to your microbiome. But some tests are better than others.

Doctors warn that at-home gut microbiome tests are largely unregulated, often unreliable and offer little actionable value beyond curiosity. View on euronews ...

Spruiked by online influencers as a way of gaining insight into our health, experts say at-home tests oversimplify complex factors and can cause unnecessary distress ...

Tiny Health is one of the com-panies offering at-home tests for one’s intestinal micro-biome. (Tiny Health) At-home gut microbiome tests are trending, selling insights to the curious, empowerment to ...

At-home gut microbiome tests are trending, selling insights to the curious, empowerment to the chronically ill and a claimed path to longevity to the wellness-conscious. Private companies are offering ...