{"type": "project", "title": "Kitchen-To-Toilet: Onchain Public Data, Gut Microbiome Testing, and Personalized Nutrition", "logoImg": "bafkreihzkqyxt6ifkqftgr65vxtseoy6g4vjxuoh7eirdm5srhrg36isdm", "website": "https://ethglobal.com/showcase/poopnet-aozoe", "bannerImg": "bafkreiaxqpmfkq74dw7oqh72zzzska2mpmna7t3h2g3vwmsbayeku546l4", "createdAt": 1713314305201, "userGithub": "xuanmir", "credentials": {}, "description": "## History\n\nPoopNet got started on ETHGlobal Paris 2023, where we started thinking about a protocol for gut-microbiome analysis. Since then, we\u2019ve continued working on the protocol, front-end, and branding. The last couple of months we decided to merge it with the Nutrit protocol. Our working title for this union of protocols is Kitchen-To-Toilet.\n\n## Problem\n\nWe lack reliable data to make better nutrition choices for our health and for our planet.\n\nGut-related diseases are on the rise globally, while microbiome testing remains prohibitively expensive. Profit-driven food and drug industries have monopolistic business models that lead to regulatory capture and privatization of public health data, obstructing the development of citizen-led research.\n\nWhen we go to a restaurant or order food delivery, we cannot know the precise nutritional composition and environmental footprint of our meal. Manually capturing data from nutrition labels of packaged foods is time consuming. Official nutrition recommendations are not personalized, they tend to infantilize consumers, and can be easily biased through conflict of interest dynamics.\n\n## Solution\n\nMake it extremely easy to capture data about the precise composition of our meals and to understand their impact on our gut microbiome, so that it becomes a daily habit like washing our hands.\n\n- Onchain attestations about the nutritional composition and environmental footprint of packaged foods and restaurant meals.\n- Quick data entry through QR codes and API integrations.\n- Shared-use toilets as pickup points to optimize the stool sample collection process.\n\n## Success Vision\n\nUse onchain public data to:\n\n- Become the lead actors of our personal health.\n- Generate a personalized nutrition and microbiome population journal.\n- Coordinate a marketplace for microbiome sequencing, data interpretation, nutrition recommendation, and meal prep services.\n- Empower researchers with continuous data from the same subjects over a long time frame.\n- Foster the emergence of microbiome testing and data interpretation as free public health services.\n\nThis protocol aims to change incentives. The more users know about their own health, the more they will demand better quality food and health services. Doctors, food producers, and restaurants will naturally react to what their customers demand.\n\n## Field-Test\n\n- For nutrition data entry we want to cooperate with a handful of local restaurants or meal prep services that want to highlight the ingredients of their products.\n- For stool sample collection we want to cooperate with a group of people that are regularly present in the same location and that want to participate in a long-term pilot. (e.g., coworking space, gym, medical school, sports team)\n\n## Plans for Funding\n\nWe want to build a prototype \n\n- User accounts\n- Remote storage\n- Local storage\n- Test\n\n## Team Members\n\nWe are Juan Diosdado and Pauline de Mortain\n\nWe met 6 years ago at a VR storytelling hackathon and immediately bonded over a shared interest in the power of narratives to drive social change.\n\nJuan was an aspiring screenwriter and freelance photographer, Pauline was a psychomotor therapist.\n\nWe have been collaborating on multiple projects around environment, narrative, and society. Our skills evolved from soft to more technical as our challenges grew.\n\n![Kitchen-To-Toilet Diagram](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xuanmir/PoopNet/main/Kitchen-To-Toilet.png)\n\n![PoopNet-SamplesView](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xuanmir/PoopNet/main/PoopNet-SamplesView.png)", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": ""}
Kitchen-To-Toilet: Onchain Public Data, Gut Microbiome Testing, and Personalized Nutrition
## History

PoopNet got started on ETHGlobal Paris 2023, where we started thinking about a protocol for gut-microbiome analysis. Since then, we’ve continued working on the protocol, front-end, and branding. The last couple of months we decided to merge it with the Nutrit protocol. Our working title for this union of protocols is Kitchen-To-Toilet.

## Problem

We lack reliable data to make better nutrition choices for our health and for our planet.

Gut-related diseases are on the rise globally, while microbiome testing remains prohibitively expensive. Profit-driven food and drug industries have monopolistic business models that lead to regulatory capture and privatization of public health data, obstructing the development of citizen-led research.

When we go to a restaurant or order food delivery, we cannot know the precise nutritional composition and environmental footprint of our meal. Manually capturing data from nutrition labels of packaged foods is time consuming. Official nutrition recommendations are not personalized, they tend to infantilize consumers, and can be easily biased through conflict of interest dynamics.

## Solution

Make it extremely easy to capture data about the precise composition of our meals and to understand their impact on our gut microbiome, so that it becomes a daily habit like washing our hands.

- Onchain attestations about the nutritional composition and environmental footprint of packaged foods and restaurant meals.
- Quick data entry through QR codes and API integrations.
- Shared-use toilets as pickup points to optimize the stool sample collection process.

## Success Vision

Use onchain public data to:

- Become the lead actors of our personal health.
- Generate a personalized nutrition and microbiome population journal.
- Coordinate a marketplace for microbiome sequencing, data interpretation, nutrition recommendation, and meal prep services.
- Empower researchers with continuous data from the same subjects over a long time frame.
- Foster the emergence of microbiome testing and data interpretation as free public health services.

This protocol aims to change incentives. The more users know about their own health, the more they will demand better quality food and health services. Doctors, food producers, and restaurants will naturally react to what their customers demand.

## Field-Test

- For nutrition data entry we want to cooperate with a handful of local restaurants or meal prep services that want to highlight the ingredients of their products.
- For stool sample collection we want to cooperate with a group of people that are regularly present in the same location and that want to participate in a long-term pilot. (e.g., coworking space, gym, medical school, sports team)

## Plans for Funding

We want to build a prototype 

- User accounts
- Remote storage
- Local storage
- Test

## Team Members

We are Juan Diosdado and Pauline de Mortain

We met 6 years ago at a VR storytelling hackathon and immediately bonded over a shared interest in the power of narratives to drive social change.

Juan was an aspiring screenwriter and freelance photographer, Pauline was a psychomotor therapist.

We have been collaborating on multiple projects around environment, narrative, and society. Our skills evolved from soft to more technical as our challenges grew.

![Kitchen-To-Toilet Diagram](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xuanmir/PoopNet/main/Kitchen-To-Toilet.png)

![PoopNet-SamplesView](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xuanmir/PoopNet/main/PoopNet-SamplesView.png)
Kitchen-To-Toilet: Onchain Public Data, Gut Microbiome Testing, and Personalized Nutrition