Maria Otworowska, PhD
Co-founder, Bliss Labs
PhD in computational cognitive science and AI. She co-founded Bliss Labs, the studio behind Gut Twin, and built Skin Bliss, an app with over 3 million recorded installs.
Posts by Maria
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Bloating 6 min readFoods that cause bloating: 7 suspects and how to find yours
What foods cause bloating? Beans, onion, garlic, wheat, some fruit, fizzy drinks, fatty meals and dairy. Why each one does it, and how to find yours.
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Food and FODMAPs 7 min readGarlic intolerance symptoms: why garlic and onion bloat you, and how to test it
What are garlic intolerance symptoms? Bloating, gas and loose poop hours after eating. Why garlic and onion do it, and a 2-week test to check if it's you.
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Everybody poops 7 min readHow often should you poop? What's normal, and how to find yours
How often should you poop? Anywhere from 3 times a day to 3 times a week is common. What your Bristol stool type says, and how to track your own.
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Bloating 7 min readHow to get rid of bloating: what helps today, and how to find your cause
How to get rid of bloating? Walk after meals, breathe into your belly, skip the fizz. Then find your own cause with one small test at a time.
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Food and FODMAPs 7 min readKiwi for constipation: how many a day, and how to test it on yourself
Does kiwi help constipation? Trials used two kiwis a day for four weeks. Gold vs green, kiwi vs prunes, and a simple test to see what it does for you.
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Bloating 6 min readFood diary for bloating: a free printable, and how to read it
A free printable food and symptom diary that fits a week on one page: what to write down, how long to keep it, and a worked example of reading it for patterns.
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Gut and mind 7 min readStressed gut and fermented foods
Stress and gut trouble feed each other through a two-way link between your gut and your brain. We look at what's known about that link and the everyday food changes that can help break the loop.
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Research notes 5 min readThe biggest diet-microbiome study didn't fit our framework. So we built a controlled bridge.
The Human Phenotype Project, the biggest study of diet and gut bacteria, reports scores for whole diets, so we pulled food-level results out of it and added a careful selection to our evidence base.
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Research notes 8 min readTo extend beyond older microbiome cohorts, we had to build a bridge
Newer studies measure gut bacteria a different way, so we built a calibration step that lines their results up with the older studies we had already checked.
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Research notes 6 min readBefore building on public microbiome studies, we checked whether they agree
We checked three large studies of diet and gut bacteria against each other, and where they shared a finding, 89% pointed the same way.