Your gut responds to how you live - what you ate, how you slept, the week you've been having. The Gut Health Coach from Throne Science connects those daily habits to your actual gut data, so you can see what's helping and what's hurting.

Log a sentence about your day and Gut Health Coach handles the rest.

Why this is hard to do on your own

Dietitians, nutritionists, and gut health coaches do this with clients all the time. They have you keep a food diary, track your bowel movements, then sit down and find the connections. There's a good reason for it. Your gut is genuinely responsive to your diet, your lifestyle, your stress, and your triggers are your own.

The method works. Two things fall apart in practice.

Keeping two logs is a part-time job. One for what goes in, one for what comes out, every day, for weeks. Many people start, but most never finish.

And the analysis is ultimately a guess. Even if you make it three weeks with two full notebooks, you're flipping between them trying to hold a month of your life in your head. "It kind of seems like the bad days come after dairy?" That's a hunch. Memory drifts, our sense of what's normal isn't always reliable, and we all notice the evidence that confirms what we already suspected.

That's what we built the Gut Health Coach to fix.

What Gut Health Coach changes

Two things.

1. You only log half of it. Throne already reads what comes out. Stool form, frequency, hydration, session by session, without you doing anything. So there's no second notebook. You log what happened in your day, and the outcome measure captures itself. That also means the outcome isn't your recollection of how things went. It's what actually happened.

2. The Coach does the connecting. Rather than flipping between journals looking for patterns, the Coach compares what you logged against what your data did over the following 48 hours, and keeps doing it across weeks. It's looking for things that consistently show up before your best days and your worst ones.

The tracking still asks something of you, and we won't pretend otherwise. You have to tell it what's going on in your life. But it's one freeform sentence, not a spreadsheet logging every calorie.

How It Works: Step by Step

The first time you open the Gut Health Coach, you will fill out a one-time intake questionnaire. It asks about any diagnosed conditions like IBS, IBD, GERD, or celiac disease, your typical bowel habits, symptoms like bloating, gas, or urgency, foods you already suspect may be affecting you, your sleep and stress patterns, and your personal goals. It only happens once, and it helps the Coach personalize everything that follows. If you aren’t ready to fill it out, you can skip straight to journaling and come back to it later.

Your First Journal Entry

There are two ways to start a journal entry: directly after a session in your session details, or by tapping the plus button and selecting Add Journal Entry.

The Coach asks one question to get you started: what happened today? The entry is completely freeform. There is no list of categories to check off and no structured form to fill out. You type your response or use voice dictation through your keyboard to explain whatever is relevant in your own words.

Example of responses:

• "Ate heavier than usual last night."
• "Stressed about a work deadline all week."
• "Slept terribly, maybe four hours."
• "Long flight, barely moved all day."
• “Drank 2 espresso martinis last night.”

Your Daily and Weekly Insights

As you start logging consistently in the app, the Coach communicates back through a daily touchpoint and a weekly summary. These insights will appear in your Insights tab at the bottom of your overview screen.

After individual sessions, you may see a Today's Takeaway on your dashboard, a short summary comparing your latest data to your recent trends and flagging anything worth noticing. Each week, the Weekly Review ties everything together: gut health and hydration score, bathroom habits, and your journal entries. It surfaces patterns and suggests specific things worth testing in the week ahead, grounded in your own data.

Note: Your Coach needs at least five qualifying days before it can start drawing conclusions about a factor, such as a habit, food, supplement, symptom, or lifestyle detail. A qualifying day means you logged that factor and had a stool session on the same day. The app shows how many more qualifying days are needed before that factor can unlock an insight.

For anyone with IBS or a known or suspected gut sensitivity, the Coach gives you a way to finally test what you have always suspected. Rather than eliminating a food and hoping for the best, you can log diligently on the days you eat a suspected trigger, compare your gut health score over the following 48 hours against days you avoided it, and repeat that across five or more instances.

Watch Patterns Surface Over Time

Throne creates a personalized Gut Health Score (based on stool form and frequency) by gathering objective data from each time you use the toilet. It’s important to know, what you log does not impact or change that score. Journal entries only help the Coach interpret your score by connecting your habits and context to the changes it sees, giving you a clearer picture of what is driving your score.

After each journal entry, the Coach compares what you logged to changes in your gut health data over the following 48 hours. It looks for recurring relationships, things that consistently show up before your strongest gut health days and things that consistently show up before your weakest ones.

Factors are displayed on a scale from Hurts to Helps. The more you engage with your insights, the more insightful the Coach gets. You can react with a thumbs up or thumbs down, confirm what is right and flag what feels off. Every response goes directly back to the team and shapes what gets refined next.

What to Expect in the First Few Weeks

The goal early on is to build a daily journaling habit. Brief, consistent entries will always be worth more than detailed ones logged sporadically. Check in consistently with the app, log what is happening in your life every day, and give the Coach what it needs to work. Plan for roughly one to two weeks before insights begin to surface for your most frequently tracked factors. The more you put in, the clearer the picture gets. For the first time ever, you can see exactly what is influencing your gut health and take action.

Note: The Gut Health Coach is currently in beta. In order to use the feature, you'll need to ensure your app is updated with the latest release. Features and insights will continue to improve as we learn, and your insights become more personalized the more you use it.