It’s time to find out what microbes you have hiding in your belly. Microbiome projects worldwide have laid an important foundation for understanding the trillions of microbes that inhabit our bodies. Many bacteria are important to and directly affect human health. Researchers know that diet affects the microbiome and that obesity is linked to the microbes that live in your gut. However, they need even more samples to fully understand how microbes are linked to health and disease. American Gut is a citizen science project that gives you the opportunity to participate in the discovery of new scientific knowledge about the microbiome. Compare the microbes in your gut and elsewhere (for around $99 USD), to those of thousands of other participants in the US and around the world. Built on open-source and open access principles, American Gut aims to produce data for the good of scientific understanding for all.

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