Did you know your poop can reveal your mental health, your diet, your DNA- and even what medications you're on? In this episode of Doctor vs Internet, host Sonal Mehrotra Kapoor sits down with Max Kushnir, Chief Science Officer of Sova Health and geneticist, for India's most comprehensive gut health conversation.

We break down the Bristol Stool Chart, explain why nearly 40–50% of Indians may have IBS without a diagnosis, decode anxiety poop, discuss lactose intolerance, antibiotic damage to your microbiome, and answer your most embarrassing gut questions.

In this episode:

- Is it normal to poop once a week?

- What is the Bristol Stool Chart?

- Why do we get anxiety poop?

- IBS vs IBD — what's the difference?

- Why world leaders like Putin hide their poop

- How antibiotics destroy your gut (and how to recover)

- 5 things for a healthy, happy stool

- Lactose intolerance explained

- Take it or flush it — poop edition

Tune in!

Produced by Taniya Dutta

Sound mixed by Aman Pal