<font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I don't know how much you guys know about poo, but I know more than what I've found to be the usual limited amount of knowledge that people generally have.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div>If I recall correctly, there are such devices out there but they mainly monitor weight of masses moved rather than anything chemical. Analysis of poo weight and content can be noted being done with those patients with serious illness like Crohn's disease Irritable Bowel Diseases (ulcerative colitis, etc) and and colostomy bags fitted to monitor their condition. A universal-analyzing toilet would be great in a space station or a moon colony as a standard for every toilet because people need to be monitored very closely and disease identified very quickly as there's a limited amount of personnel up there to help and it takes time to get from there back down to earth to see a full-fledged expert (doctor, clinician) related to some conditions. I'm sure it would work to help one see how your body is impacted by some foods. I have a friend that I haven't been in touch with recently who has Crohn's disease and he described to me the frequency that his poo was analyzed.</font></font><div>
<font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">Aside...</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">I studied zero order drug kinetics in regards to a few substances and had to figure out base systems such as kidneys, what passes into your blood from where, why bilirubin makes your pee yellow (and is also what colors bile yellowish) as well as what's digestable and what's not.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, sans-serif">Another note is that cellulose isn't digestable to passes right out, which is why you often see gum and some identifiable things (corn, leaves) in fecal matter.</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">On that note, I'd like to give you all this link:</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/146199/understanding_the_various_colors_of.html?cat=5">http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/146199/understanding_the_various_colors_of.html?cat=5</a></font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/146199/understanding_the_various_colors_of.html?cat=5"></a>:P</font></font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Matt Joyce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@nycresistor.com">matt@nycresistor.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>Well when compared to percent error on most biometrics used today it's definitely acceptably unique. But that's more of an enditement of biometric technology in general.</p>
<p>It is fascinating to me for sure. What I have been tempted to try to build is an automated fecal sample / analysis toilet. Would be great for health checkups. Walk in and hand your doctor last three months of stool metrics. Or setup alerts.</p>
<p>it would be a concievably great asset.</p><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<p>On Sep 20, 2010 1:38 PM, "Glen Jarvis" <<a href="mailto:glen@glenjarvis.com" target="_blank">glen@glenjarvis.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">>><br>>> Actually bowels bacteria are usually fairly unique.<br>
>><br>>> It would be a pretty acceptable metric by which to authenticate someone.<br>>><br>>><br>> There's a whole bunch of meta-genomic work that is going on in this field.<br>> It's fascinating. I can share what I know about the bioinformatics of doing<br>
> such a thing if you're interested.<br>> <br>> We cannot, unfortunately, yet say that it's a pretty acceptable metric by<br>> which to authenticate someone. Or, at least, I haven't seen that yet. If<br>
> there is a paper on such a thing, it would be *real* interesting to read.<br>> <br>> I know.. I know.. you were joking. But, there is a whole area that this is<br>> really *really* being researched and interesting... (And, not just samples<br>
> from the gut -- ocean floor, etc. too).<br>> <br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Glen<br>> -- <br>> Whatever you can do or imagine, begin it;<br>> boldness has beauty, magic, and power in it.<br>
> <br>> -- Goethe<br></p>
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