Agricultural soil testing is critical to determining soil’s nutrient concentration and variability across your fields. It is ideal to test your fields’ soil at least every two to three years to inform ...

Good soil is the starting point for a garden that grows well. It feeds your plants, holds water, and helps roots grow strong. If the soil is off, even the best seeds can struggle. Many gardeners focus ...

I’ve bombed a few tests in my life. This one was a real gut punch. My microbiome’s health was rated as “poor.” I had my gut microbiome—the collection of bacteria in the digestive tract—tested as part ...

Colorectal cancer cases are rising among younger people, striking even folks without obvious risk factors. For nearly two decades, UC San Francisco Family Community Medicine Professor Micheal Potter, ...

If your doctor thinks you may have exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI), they’ll order a combination of stool, blood, imaging, and pancreatic function tests. Share on Pinterest 1467188045 Patricio ...

Your gut health can have rollover effects to other parts of your body. When your gut is happy and healthy, you may notice that other parts of your body feel happy and healthy too. And when your gut is ...

Cologuard is a colon cancer screening test you can do at home. It’s a noninvasive, stool-based test that comes in a kit. You use the kit to collect a stool sample. Then you send the sample to a lab ...

FDA approval of a Guardant Health blood test that screens for colorectal cancer makes it the first liquid biopsy approved for this type of cancer, clearing the way to make this test more accessible to ...

You can't see them, but trillions — maybe quadrillions — of them travel in and out of your practice every day. They're hungry, mysterious, community-oriented, and small. Very, very small. They're the ...

March marks the beginning of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. At-home stool tests can be an easier way to screen for colorectal cancer than a dreaded colonoscopy. As the rates of the cancer continue ...

Q: I'm taking my pet to a new veterinarian, and they've asked me to bring in a fecal sample. What's the best way to collect and store it, and how "fresh" does it need to be? A: That's great. Fecal ...

Silas Mayes rolled into his local McDonald’s drive-through at lunchtime on Monday, October 7, and ordered his usual: a Quarter Pounder, fries and a Sprite. By Thursday morning, he was having waves of ...