The Scoop on Poop: Your Toilet Just Got Smarter with Scott Hickle of Throne Science

On this episode of Biohacking Blondes, we sat down with Scott Hickle, co-founder and CEO of Throne Science, to explore how a simple toilet attachment is transforming the future of personalized health. Using AI and a discreet, rim-mounted camera, Throne turns every flush into valuable insights about your gut health, hydration, and urinary function—without requiring you to log a single thing. We discuss how tracking your bathroom habits over time can reveal patterns related to stress, sleep, exercise, diet, medications, and more, empowering you to make smarter health decisions. Scott also shares what the future holds, including potential multispectral imaging to help identify hidden blood in the stool, parasite detection, and integration with wearables and lab testing to create a truly personalized health dashboard.

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Top 10 Takeaways

1. Your toilet may become your most valuable health tracker. Throne automatically monitors your bowel habits and hydration every day, giving you effortless health data without having to remember to log anything.
2. Hydration affects far more than thirst. Your urine can reveal hydration trends that influence energy, exercise recovery, headaches, constipation, and even brain function. Watch how travel, workouts, saunas, and sleep affect your hydration.
3. Stress leaves clues in your bathroom. Many people notice looser stools, increased urgency, or more frequent bowel movements during stressful periods. Tracking these changes can help you identify hidden stress before it impacts your overall health.
4. Look for trends—not one bad day. One abnormal bowel movement usually isn't meaningful. Consistent changes over days or weeks are much more valuable and can help you know when it's time to make lifestyle changes or speak with your healthcare provider.
5. Turn yourself into your own health experiment. Try changing one variable at a time—such as adding fiber, changing your diet, improving sleep, managing stress, or starting a new supplement—and use the data to see what actually works for your body.
6. Context matters. Menstrual cycles, travel, illness, medications, probiotics, laxatives, detox binders, and supplements can all influence your bowel habits and hydration, so consider the bigger picture when reviewing your trends.
7. Health tracking works for the whole family. Multiple users can share a device, and individuals with more than one home can use multiple devices while keeping their data connected.
8. Your health data should stay private. Scott explains the privacy safeguards built into Throne, including downward-facing imaging, encrypted data, and security measures designed to protect sensitive information.
9. The future is connected health. Combining bathroom data with wearables, continuous glucose monitors, sleep tracking, HRV, activity, and laboratory testing could provide a much more complete picture of your health than any single device alone.
10. Earlier detection could save lives. Throne is developing multispectral imaging technology designed to identify trends that may indicate hidden blood in the stool over time, with the long-term goal of helping people recognize potential concerns earlier and seek appropriate medical evaluation. (This feature is currently in development and is not intended to diagnose disease.)

Links

Throne Science: https://thronescience.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thronescience

Scott Hickle: https://www.instagram.com/scotthickle/