Media Coverage (Healthspan)

Sean Gibbons spoke with Science Focus about the link between the frequency of bowel movements and long-term health.

Infrequent pooping may be setting yourself up for medical problems down the road, and pooping too often brings its own issues. Research out of the Gibbons Lab details the “Goldilocks” zone.

Personalized pre/probiotic treatments could someday be used to support healthy sleep through stressful exam periods and menopause, a new review by Gibbons Lab scientists suggests.

We eat things that contain DNA – plants, fungi, animals – and some of that DNA survives passage through the gut. So the Gibbons Lab decided to measure that DNA directly to find out what people tracking their food were actually eating.

Sean Gibbons was interviewed on “The Excerpt,” the flagship podcast of USA TODAY, and discussed his research looking at poop frequency and its implication on health.

Christian Diener, Sean Gibbons and colleagues developed a method to detect and measure food-derived DNA in human stool samples – an approach that can be used to estimate a person’s dietary intake.

Sean Gibbons spoke with podcast host Ira Pastor about the Gibbons Lab’s recent work decoding diet from stool DNA, and many other projects Sean has studied and taken part of over the past several years.

ISB’s Gibbons Lab developed a breakthrough method that analyzes food-derived DNA in fecal metagenomes, allowing for data-driven diet tracking without the need for burdensome questionnaires.