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What Exactly Does Throne Do?

Providing background on how Throne measures and decodes gut health, hydration status, and the habits that shape them.

Updated over 3 weeks ago

A New Kind of Health Tracker

Throne is not something you wear on your wrist or keep in your pocket. It clips onto your toilet bowl and quietly turns each bathroom visit into meaningful health data.

The Throne device monitors your gut health, hydration, and urinary flow patterns, helping you see how your body changes over time. It is designed to fit naturally into your routine so you can learn from what your body is already telling you.


What Throne Tracks

Gut Health Score

Throne looks at how often you go and what your stool looks like, using the Bristol Stool Scale to classify consistency and texture. From this information, it creates a single Gut Health Score that reflects your digestive rhythm and overall gut health trends.

It can also recognize changes in stool color, buoyancy, diameter, and volume, offering deeper insight into your digestion over time.

Hydration Score

By analyzing urine color and concentration, Throne estimates your hydration level and generates a Hydration Score. These readings make it easier to understand how your daily habits affect hydration balance.

Urinary Flow Insights

Throne can measure flow rate and timing to identify shifts in urinary flow patterns. This specialized feature expands what can be observed at home.

Note: All measurements reflect wellness-level patterns, not medical testing. They are designed to help you identify gut and hydration changes early, not diagnose medical conditions.


How It Works

Installation and Detection

The Throne device clips onto the rim of a standard toilet bowl and faces downward into the water. It powers on only when a registered user is nearby, using Bluetooth proximity from the Throne App or with the intentional press of an assigned button. This prevents accidental captures and protects privacy.

Sensor and AI Processing

When active, Throne uses optical and acoustic sensors to collect information about stool and urine. Its doctor-trained AI system analyzes those inputs to identify stool type, color, and hydration level, then calculates your Gut Health and Hydration Scores for wellness insights you can understand.

Data Transmission and Reporting

Your data is transmitted securely through Wi-Fi to the Throne Server to the Throne App, where you can view daily results, trends, and patterns over time. The app connects these insights to your everyday choices such as hydration, diet, or stress levels and your personal normal.

Multi-User and Privacy Design

Throne supports multiple users in one household, recognizing individuals by phone proximity or assigned buttons. It only captures what is in the bowl, not the person. All data is end-to-end encrypted, and the device stays inactive when an unregistered user is nearby.


Why It Matters

Your gut influences many areas of health, including digestion, mood, metabolism, and immunity. Traditional gut health testing can be slow or inconvenient. Throne brings wellness insights into your everyday life, providing real-time feedback to identify patterns when they start.

Hydration is just as essential. Dehydration can affect focus, energy, and digestion, yet most people only notice it once symptoms appear. Throne’s hydration tracking helps you understand how your fluid intake supports your body’s balance throughout the day.

For those managing digestive conditions like IBS, Throne can provide trend data to discuss with a healthcare provider. For wellness-minded users, it bridges the gap between wearables and medical testing, making unseen health signals easy to track and understand.


What Throne Doesn’t Do

It is important to understand what Throne is and what it is not.

  • Not a medical diagnostic device: Throne does not diagnose, treat, or prevent disease

  • Dependent on correct setup: The device works best on a white toilet bowl in consistent lighting with stable Wi-Fi

  • Still evolving: As a new technology, its features and data models will continue to improve through regular updates and research

Throne is a wellness tool. It helps you stay aware, make informed choices, and bring context to your body’s everyday patterns. It is not intended to replace professional care.


In Summary

Throne turns your toilet into a tool for understanding your body better. It tracks bowel movement frequency and texture, urine color and flow, and translates that information into Gut Health and Hydration Scores that evolve over time.

Throne helps you see what your body has been telling you all along every day and now its digested one flush and one data point at a time.

Throne is not a medical device and only provides general wellness insights and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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