Can you trust the results from gut microbiome tests? Maybe not

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Read this before you make health decisions based on a consumer test of your gut microbes The National Institute of Standards and Technology created a standardized fecal sample. Companies that analyzed identical samples of the standard produced results as varied as the microbes carried by different people. Listen to this article This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey . (See our AI policy here .) Finding out what gut microbes a person carries may not be as easy as many companies advertise. Seven direct-to-consumer microbiome testing companies each got three identical fecal samples but returned different results about which gut microbes were present, researchers report February 26 in Communications Biology. The results highlight discrepancies among companies that claim to give consumers insight about their gut health. That matters because consumers may
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