Can 'smart toilets' be the next health data wellspring?

[2greys]

Wearable, smart technologies are transforming the ability to monitor and improve health, but a decidedly low-tech commodity — the humble toilet — may have potential to outperform them all.

That’s the conclusion of a team of metabolism scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research, who are working to put the tremendous range of metabolic health information contained in urine to work for personalized medicine.

Urine contains a virtual liquid history of an individual’s nutritional habits, exercise, medication use, sleep patterns and other lifestyle choices. Urine also contains metabolic links to more than 600 human conditions, including some of the major killers such as cancer, diabetes and kidney disease.

morgridge.org/story/can-sma...

[HungryHufflepuff]

At first I laughed too but actually, what a great idea!

[2greys in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

Just keeping you all in the loo-p

[Echoblue]

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 you do get us thinking 2greys! Could be a bit worrying if there is a delay in providing info and you get the previous person’s info in error 😳x

[Echoblue]

Clearly what you wrote was getting my grey matter whirring 2greys as was just glancing at the news app and read a headline “toilets promise to cut immigration” .... really, what the ...?

Of course I had misread it and it wasn’t toilets, it was Tory’s, but my mistake did make me smile a wry smile so wanted to share what an impact your thoughts were having!! 🤔😁☺️ x

[Hidden in reply to Echoblue]

Just shows you how important and widely read this forum is. Bring up a subject and the whole world starts to discuss it.😁

[Echoblue in reply to Hidden]

😂😂🙌🏻

[Schmicter]

Really, at least it's a bit discriminatory toward the turd.

[stamford1234]

Back to basics, but why not