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Old Wed, Feb-01-17, 09:31
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Plan: Primal-ish
Stats: 172/158/132 Female 5'2"
BF:
Progress: 35%
Location: Rural NSW, Australia
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Originally Posted by WereBear
That is really amazing. I am so glad for you.

Thank you! I'm super excited about it all. I'm looking forward to just getting better and better.

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Originally Posted by Hiltm
Curious - how does one go about testing gut bacteria? Stool sample? Needle? Breath?

In my case, stool sample. I think that's the standard method for testing at the moment. (There are breath tests but I don't know that they're all that accurate?) There are lots of different companies that offer it. Some can do fairly basic tests (parasites only, for example) for quite cheap while some do much more expensive tests that identify pretty much everything. My doctor sent me to a place somewhere in the middle; he said you want to know more than just the parasites, but that there's no point doing the really extensive tests right now since we don't know what most of those bacteria actually DO for us, so it's more cost-effective to test the ones we know about and work on fixing them. YMMV.
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