Most people try to manage their gut health by guessing. They cut out a food, change a habit, hope for the best, and never really know whether it made a difference.

The Gut Health Coach replaces that guesswork with evidence from your own body.

By connecting what you do to how your gut actually responds, it helps you see which habits move the needle and which don't, so you can stop wondering and start making changes you can trust.

Your gut health isn't decided in the bathroom. It's shaped by everything that happens before you get there.
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What you ate. How you slept. Whether you were stressed, traveling, sick, or simply feeling off. These factors leave a mark, but the connection between them and how your gut behaves can be difficult to spot.
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Throne already handles one half of that problem. It automatically tracks what happens during each session, no logging required. The Gut Health Coach handles the other half: the context.
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You tell the Coach what's happening in your life, it compares that information to your gut health data, and together those signals become something you can use:

The Coach isn't here to tell you what's wrong.

It works more like a researcher, looking for patterns in your data, highlighting what tends to show up before your strongest and weakest gut health days, and suggesting small experiments you may want to try based on the context that helps and hurts your scores.

The Coach follows a simple process that becomes more personalized over time:

Here's what each step looks like.

The Gut Health Coach is powered by AI, and it's entirely opt-in.

Nothing is shared until you say so.
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Before your first journal entry, you'll see a screen called Your data & AI that walks through exactly what the Coach uses and how.

The Coach only turns on after you check the agreement box and tap Accept & Continue.

If you tap Decline, the Coach stays off — you can still use the rest of the Throne app as usual.

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Your journal entries, logged factors, gut health and hydration scores, and what you tell the Coach in chat.
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This data is sent to third-party AI service providers only to generate Gut Health Coach insights and replies. That's the only thing it powers.
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We don't sell your data or use it for ads. Your Coach guides you; it doesn't diagnose or give medical advice.
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The disclosure you accept covers a few important points worth understanding before you opt in:

You'll also see a short reminder inside the Coach itself that it provides general wellness information only — not medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or emergency guidance.
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You're always in control, and you can review or change your choice anytime in Settings → Gut Health Coach.

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When the Coach is enabled, this screen shows the date you gave consent and a summary of what you're sharing. Tap Withdraw consent to turn it off.
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When you withdraw consent:

Want to see the introduction again? Tap Replay Throne Journal intro on the same screen to rewatch the onboarding walkthrough.

The first time you open the Coach, you'll complete a personalized intake questionnaire, similar to what you might discuss during an initial conversation with a dietitian or GI specialist.
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The intake is conversational and covers topics such as:

"Better" means different things to different people.

For some, it means fewer symptoms.

For others, it means more predictable bathroom habits or simply a better understanding of how their body responds to everyday life.
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The intake helps the Coach personalize the insights that follow.
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Not ready to complete the intake?

You can skip directly to journaling and return to it later.

Journaling is how the Coach learns about the context surrounding your gut health.

Each journal entry is designed to be quick and flexible. You can select suggested responses, write your own notes, or do both.
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You can start a journal entry in two ways:

The Coach starts with a simple question:
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Some days, a quick response is enough:

Other days, you may want to add more detail.
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Both approaches help build context over time.

If you want to note symptoms quickly you can do that as well in your session details.

Sometimes a single journal entry doesn't tell the whole story.
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When additional context may be helpful, the Coach can ask one or two short follow-up questions.
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For example, if you log that something feels off, the Coach may ask whether you're experiencing physical discomfort, low energy, or changes in mood. It may also ask whether symptoms followed a meal or a stressful event.

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The goal isn't to conduct a medical interview. It's simply to collect enough context to make future pattern recognition more meaningful.
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Once you're finished, the Coach summarizes what it logged and returns you to your dashboard.
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Behind the scenes, the Coach identifies relevant factors such as stress, alcohol, sleep quality, meal timing, or hydration.

This is where the Coach begins looking for patterns.
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After you log something, the Coach compares that information to your gut health data from the day you log it. Journal entries are tied to the calendar day they're recorded, so everything you log is paired with that day's stool sessions. Over time, the Coach looks for recurring relationships rather than isolated events.
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Your Gut Health Score is based on stool form and stool frequency. The Coach layers your journal entries on top of that information, along with hydration and regularity trends, to better understand which factors may be influencing your gut health.
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The clearest view of these relationships appears in the Insights tab at the bottom of your overview screen.
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This view ranks the factors you've logged based on how strongly they appear to be associated with changes in your Gut Health Score.
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Factors are displayed on a scale ranging from Hurts to Helps, making it easy to see which habits tend to appear before stronger or weaker gut health days.
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Over time, you may notice patterns such as:

These observations come from your own data, not population averages or generic wellness advice.
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They become more personalized as you continue using the Coach.

Insights are provided for a given symptom (e.g. bloating) or contextual item (e.g. poor sleep) and the degree that their presence is either better or worse for gut health once a given symptom or contextual item is:
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And:

The more you log the faster your Insights for different behaviors will appear. You can see the status for different logged items at the bottom of your Insights tab.

The Gut Health Coach works across multiple parts of the Throne experience.
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Every journal entry helps build the context needed to understand your gut health trends.
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Following a session, you may receive a Today's Takeaway on your dashboard.
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These summaries compare your latest data to your recent trends and may highlight changes in hydration, gut health, consistency, or other patterns. When relevant, they may also reference information you've logged in your journal.
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Each week, the Coach brings together:

The Weekly Review may include:

The Coach suggests experiments, not rules.
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Instead of telling you what to do, it highlights patterns and encourages you to test them.
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For example:

When things are going well, it may also highlight consistency:

The goal is to help you learn from your own data, not follow a one-size-fits-all plan.

The Coach is designed with firm boundaries. It won't:

If you ask about symptoms, conditions, medications, or test results, the Coach will let you know it can't help with medical questions and point you to a qualified healthcare provider. If you believe you may be experiencing a medical emergency, call emergency services or seek immediate medical attention.

No.
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The Gut Health Coach is a wellness tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose conditions, prescribe treatment, or replace professional medical advice.
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Its purpose is to help you understand patterns in your own data and identify factors that may be influencing your gut health over time.
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If you have concerns about your health, speak with a qualified healthcare professional.

The quality of your insights depends on the quality of the information available.

You don't need to log every meal or every symptom. However, the more consistently you check in, the more opportunities the Coach has to identify meaningful patterns.
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Even brief journal entries become valuable when viewed alongside weeks or months of objective gut health data. Over time, those small observations add up.

Throne automatically tracks what happens in the bathroom. The Gut Health Coach fills in everything around it, both the before and the after.
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It learns the context that leads up to each session: what you ate, how you slept, how you've been feeling. It reads what your body actually did. And it closes the loop, surfacing takeaways along the way and a clear set of patterns and experiments to explore over time, so you always have a sense of what's worth trying next.
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That's the difference between a tracker and a coach.
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A tracker shows you data. The Gut Health Coach helps you understand what that data might mean and what may be worth trying next.

The Gut Health Coach turns your Throne data into something you can act on by:

The more consistently you check in, the clearer those patterns become.

To use the Gut Health Coach, you'll need to update your Throne app to the latest release from the App Store or Google Play. Once updated, the first time you open your journal you'll see the Your data & AI screen and can opt in by checking the agreement box and tapping Accept & Continue. You can change your choice anytime in Settings → Gut Health Coach.
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Yes. Go to Settings → Gut Health Coach and tap Withdraw consent. You'll stop sending Gut Health Coach journal and chat data to third-party AI service providers and lose access to the Coach while it's off. Your past logs stay saved, and you can turn it back on anytime by tapping Give consent & Turn on.
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The Weekly Review is one of the places the Gut Health Coach shows up. It's the weekly summary that pulls your trends, patterns, and a suggestion together in one place. The Coach also works day to day, in your journal and after individual sessions. Think of the Coach as the system, and the Weekly Review as one of the moments it speaks up. (See What Is The Week In Review?)
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No. Your Gut Health Score is based on your stool form and frequency. What you log doesn't change that score. Instead, it helps the Coach interpret it by connecting your habits and context to the changes it sees.
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The Coach looks for things that repeat. A factor needs to be logged on at least five days within the last 60 days before Throne will offer guidance on it — and those days must also have a stool session. Your Gut Health Score is what factors get compared against, so a log only "counts" on days the Coach has session data to pair it with. A little consistency goes a long way.
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Yes. The Coach remembers everything you log, so even occasional check-ins can go a long way over time.
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Not yet. Right now, only your journal entries feed the Insights view. The quick symptom logging in your session details is separate and doesn't currently count toward the five-day threshold. If you want a symptom tracked as a factor — like bloating or discomfort — mention it in a journal entry. We're working on bringing these two together.
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Not yet. For now, both your intake answers and your journal entries are final once submitted, so they can't be edited or deleted at this time. The ability to revisit and update your baseline is planned for a future release.
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The Coach is focused on your gut health rather than open-ended chat. It guides your journal entries, asks the occasional follow-up, and surfaces patterns, but it isn't a general assistant you can ask anything.
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Yes. Many people with GI conditions use the Coach to better understand their day-to-day patterns — what they eat, how they sleep, how stress shows up in their data. Keep in mind the Coach is a general wellness tool, not a medical device: it doesn't provide guidance about any medical condition or treatment, and it doesn't replace your doctor. For anything related to your condition or care, talk with your healthcare provider.
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Your journal data is used only in connection with your own personal data, and it's anonymized and kept secure in accordance with our Privacy Policy, just like the rest of your Throne data.

Throne is a general wellness product, and the Gut Health Coach is an AI-powered wellness tool. It is not intended to diagnose, screen for, predict, monitor, prevent, treat, cure, or mitigate any disease or medical condition, and it does not provide medical advice. The Gut Health Coach has not been reviewed, cleared, or approved by the FDA. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical questions or concerns.