It’s a stool sample that gets sent to a lab where a real person looks at it under a microscope to identify what’s going on. This is how we test for parasites. We know you’ve done a million stool tests and everything has come back “normal”. We see it all the time with PCR testing. When we use microscopy for parasite testing, we often get long awaited answers for patients who have been suffering for a very long time. And then we help them correct the issues in the most direct and efficient way pos

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