Stool analysis: Insights into your gut
Did you know that specialized stool analysis can provide a wealth of information about your digestion?
Your digestive system plays a crucial role in your overall health. It ensures that the food you eat is broken down into usable components like vitamins, minerals, proteins, and fats, allowing your body to absorb and utilize them. This process is essential to supply your body with the necessary nutrients.
When your digestion isn’t functioning properly, it becomes harder for your body to extract nutrients from your food. Over time, this can lead to deficiencies, resulting in various symptoms and health problems.
Subtle Signs of Digestive Issues: The first signs are often subtle: dull and brittle hair or nails that break more easily. You may also experience a lingering cold, frequent illnesses, or constant fatigue.
These symptoms can occur because your body isn’t receiving the proper nutrients, either because you’re not consuming them or because your body isn’t effectively digesting and absorbing them.
What do we analyze?
During a stool analysis, we measure over 80 different markers. This provides insights into how well your digestion is functioning, the composition of your microbiome, and whether there’s an overgrowth of bacteria, fungi, or parasites.
Jump to Specific Topics:
– Microbiome composition
– Types of bacteria in your microbiome
– Harmful bacteria, parasites, and fungi
– Immune activity
– Digestion
– Take back control
– Request an analysis
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1️⃣ Microbiome composition:

In the analysis, we examine diversity: Are there enough different types of bacteria present in your gut, and how abundant are these types? In this example, diversity is too low.

We also assess diversity: Are certain bacteria insufficiently present, or is there an overgrowth of bacteria, fungi, or parasites? In this example, the dysbiosis index is 39, which is very high. This value should be as low as possible.
2️⃣ Types of bacteria in your microbiome:
Your gut hosts countless bacteria that together form the microbiome, also known as gut flora. You can think of the microbiome as a small village, where each inhabitant has a specific task. As long as everyone does their job, the village remains self-sufficient. The same happens at the bacterial level: different bacteria have their own roles.
When there is enough diversity, meaning plenty of different types of bacteria performing their tasks and these bacteria are present in sufficient numbers, your digestion functions as it should.
Factors like antibiotics, stress, and an unbalanced diet can disrupt the composition of the microbiome. As a result, not all tasks are carried out, leading to symptoms like diarrhea, constipation, or even inflammation.


Scientific research shows that Lactobacillus plays a crucial role in regulating your immune system. People with Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis often have low levels of Lactobacillus, especially during periods of active inflammation.

Clostridia is a group of bacteria naturally present in your gut. However, overgrowth, as shown in this analysis, can cause symptoms such as diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain, cramps, and sometimes fever.

Certain bacteria in your gut flora can produce butyrate, also known as butyric acid. Butyrate serves as an energy source for these bacteria and plays an important role in maintaining a healthy microbiome. The total colony count indicates whether these bacteria can produce enough butyrate. If this value is too low, your microbiome cannot produce enough butyrate.
These bacteria produce butyrate from fibers found in fruits and vegetables. This process not only nourishes the bacteria themselves but also stimulates the microbiome to produce more beneficial bacteria and increase their population.
This contributes to healthy digestion, regulates your immune system, and helps reduce gut inflammation. This is especially important for people with chronic gut conditions such as Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative Colitis.
3️⃣ Harmful bacteria, parasites, and fungi:

When certain bacteria are overly abundant, we speak of overgrowth or pathogenic bacteria. In this case, the analysis shows that both Haemophilus and Citrobacter are overgrown. This can lead to symptoms like diarrhea, abdominal pain, and even gut inflammation.

Candida is a yeast naturally present in your gut. When overgrown, it can cause various symptoms such as bloating, gas, loose stools, a white coating on the tongue, nail fungus, and, in women, vaginal discharge.

Some gut issues can be caused by parasites, microscopic organisms that live in your gut. Parasites like Blastocystis hominis, Dientamoeba fragilis, and Giardia lamblia can cause symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, gas, and bloating.
Parasites can be especially tricky because they live in cycles. Many people notice a recurring pattern: usually normal stools, but every so often, sudden urgency followed by loose stools. This may be accompanied by abdominal discomfort, low energy, and even a foggy or negative mental state.
If you recognize this, note in your phone when these symptoms occur. Over time, you may identify a cycle where good days alternate with days of high urgency and loose stools. If this pattern repeats, there’s a strong chance a parasite is the cause.
Stool analysis can detect these parasites, providing clarity about what’s happening in your gut and what treatment is needed to address your symptoms.
4️⃣ Immune activity:

Your stool provides valuable information about your immune system’s activity and what’s happening in your gut.
We examine markers like calprotectin, secretory IgA (sIgA), and beta-defensin. Calprotectin is a marker often used in regular healthcare to determine if there’s active inflammation in the gut. Alongside calprotectin, sIgA and beta-defensin provide important insights into the activity of your gut’s immune system. An active immune system can be compared to a deployed army—it indicates something is going on.
Additionally, we analyze EPX, a marker that shows whether your body is reacting to certain proteins, as in the case of a food intolerance.
5️⃣ Digestion:

Can you digest what you eat? In cases of impaired digestion, nutrients may not be fully absorbed by your body.
In this analysis, we observe elevated fat (vetgehalte) and sugar (suikergehalte) levels in the stool. If these values are consistently high, it may indicate a digestive problem.
Elevated sugar levels may suggest you’re consuming more fruit or dairy than your body can process. Elevated fat levels indicate that fats are not being fully digested. These findings provide valuable insights into how well your digestion is functioning.
Take back control of your gut
Stool analysis offers valuable insights into the causes of your digestive issues. Whether it’s a microbiome imbalance, bacterial overgrowth, or parasitic infections, the results provide a clear picture and form the foundation for targeted treatment and sustainable recovery.
We offer two options for stool analysis:
👉 Self-guided:
After the analysis, you gain access to our app, where you’ll find your results explained step-by-step with videos tailored to your situation.
👉 Personal consultation:
Opt for an online consultation to personally review your results with one of our therapists. Together, we’ll discuss the findings and determine the next steps.
Costs:
Stool analysis + explanation via app videos: €349
Stool analysis + personal explanation (max. 90 minutes): €499
Request stool analysis
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