Secrets of the gut doctor: From faecal transplants to microbiome testing – the new treatments that could transform your entire health – The Telegraph

Have you ever considered the trillions of teeming bacteria which are spinning around your gut right now, breaking down breakfast into human compost?

Well, prepare to get up close and personal. Thanks to a new era in affordable testing, anyone can have their personal colonies of bacteria – called the microbiome – tested and the results analysed to show just what the little critters are getting up to. If anything.

And the fascination with our insides doesn’t stop there – a new generation of gut specialists are offering ways to tune up our microbiomes via therapies from oral supplements to (steel yourself) human poo transplants.

This new interest in our interior nitty gritty is a natural progression…