## Coprata News

### IBS Affects 1 in 10 People: A New Study Asks Whether the Mediterranean Diet Can Help
A 2025 pilot study by a Coprata advisor asks whether the Mediterranean diet can relieve IBS symptoms as effectively as the low-FODMAP diet. Here is what the research found.  
[Read more](https://www.coprata.com/blog/ibs-affects-people-new-study-whether-the-mediterranean-diet-help)

### Podcast Feature: Why Your Gut Health Matters More Than You Think
Our founder explains why gut health controls 70% of immune function and how smart toilets and at-home tests are making preventive health monitoring effortless through passive microbiome tracking.  
[Read more](https://www.coprata.com/blog/podcast-feature-why-your-gut-health-matters-more-than-you-think)

### Coprata Supports Landmark Longitudinal Study on Gut Microbiome and Dietary Fiber
Coprata is proud to support the FIBER-IMPACT study, a landmark research collaboration led by Nestlé Health Science in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic and UC Irvine.  
[Read more](https://www.coprata.com/blog/coprata-supports-longitudinal-study-on-gut-microbiome-dietary-fiber)

### Founder Profiled in Duke Magazine
The entrepreneurial journey of Coprata’s CEO and founder, Sonia Grego, is featured in theInput/Output Magazine, published by the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.  
[Read more](https://www.coprata.com/blog/founder-profiled-in-duke-magazine)

### Can a toilet change the world?
Friday this week marks World Water Day, an annual United Nations (UN) observance day held on the 22nd of March that highlights the importance of fresh water.  
[Read more](https://www.coprata.com/blog/can-a-toilet-change-the-world)

### Home-Based Pilot Results
Results are in! Our sensor-equipped Smart Toilet with the capability to automatically track stool appearance and bowel habit patterns was piloted in three private homes and used by four individuals.  
[Read more](https://www.coprata.com/blog/home-based-pilot-results)

### Coprata Featured in Newly Released Book
We’re delighted to have contributed as one of the trailblazing innovators to The Shift: How Digital Innovation is Irreversibly Transforming Gastroenterology and Healthcare by Praveen Suthrum—entrepreneur and healthcare futurist.  
[Read more](https://www.coprata.com/blog/coprata-featured-in-newly-released-book)

### A Milestone for Coprata
A milestone for Coprata: first podium presentation at the leading digestive diseases conference DDW2023 on May 9, 2023.  
[Read more](https://www.coprata.com/blog/a-milestone-for-coprata)

### A Study with Users of the Coprata Smart Toilet
In October 2023, we presented at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG2023), the first collaboration of Coprata with the Center of GI Physiology & Motility at Mount Sinai with co-author Yuying Luo, MD.  
[Read more](https://www.coprata.com/blog/a-study-with-users-of-the-coprata-smart-toilet)

### It’s Time to Think about Time
While advances in molecular sequencing allow measurements of a larger number of biomarkers, such measurements are typically a snapshot in time and do not capture the rapid and dynamic changes of one’s physiology over time.  
[Read more](https://www.coprata.com/blog/its-time-to-think-about-time)