Evidence-based guides on microbiome science, nutrition, and what your dog's symptoms are actually telling you.
Loose stools get all the attention. But a disrupted gut microbiome shows itself in ways most owners never connect to digestion — dull coats, grass-eating, weight that won't budge, anxiety that comes out of nowhere. Here's what your dog's body is actually trying to tell you.
Read article →The same technology that transformed human gut health research is now available for dogs. Here's a plain-English explanation of how it works, what it finds, and why it's categorically different from a stool culture.
Every dog food brand has an opinion. Microbiome science has data. We looked at sequencing results across hundreds of dogs on different diets and found some genuinely surprising patterns — including one that overturns a very popular assumption.
The UK dog probiotic market is worth over £40 million. The vast majority of products contain strains with no proven efficacy in dogs, at doses too low to make a difference. Here's what to look for on the label — and what to ignore entirely.
A standard blood panel and faecal culture miss most of what matters in the gut microbiome. We spoke to veterinary professionals about the gap between what conventional testing reveals and what microbiome sequencing adds — and when each one is right.