Create Your Own Analysis:
1. Departure from Basic Gut-Biomics Screening.
2. Upgrade your screening
Nutrigenomic Upgrades
Sensitivities
Food intolerances or sensitivities, in which the digestive system has difficulty digesting certain foods, lead to symptoms such as abdominal pain and fatigue. Sensitivities include lactose, gluten, histamine, caffeine and nightshade sensitivities, among others.
Vitamins & Minerals
Vitamins and minerals are converted by enzymatic processes in the body into active forms, such as vitamin D for calcium regulation and iron for red blood cells, so that they can effectively fulfill their roles.
Metabolites
Gut microbiota-derived metabolites, produced by bacteria during the breakdown of food, affect health by strengthening the immune system, influencing metabolism and supporting brain function. What metabolites are produced in your gut?
Intestinal health - General
Gut health refers to the state of your gut and its ability to digest food, absorb nutrients, and remove waste products, with a balanced gut microbiome, efficient digestion, and healthy gut transit being essential to your overall well-being. Here, we will delve deeper into your gut transit, sucrase isomaltase enzyme, the non-secretory gut microbiome, and the oral microbiome. Good gut health refers to more than just your digestive health.
Immunity Upgrades
Detoxification
Certain gut bacteria aid in detoxification by neutralizing or breaking down toxins, influence chemical sensitivity (MCS), interactions with medications, and the rate of toxin production. Thus, the gut microbiome plays a crucial role in protecting our bodies and regulating health. Do your gut microbiota also help in detoxification processes?
Ignition markers - Upgrade
This upgrade examines other inflammatory markers, specifically, mast cell activation, fatigue, acne and mannose binding. These offer insight into underlying causes of health problems and can inform strategies for treatment and prevention.
Post-Viral Triggers
Post-viral triggers in the microbiome can cause changes in both the gut and oral microbiome, which in turn affect health aspects such as metabolic markers, acidity and genetic markers, leading to varied post-viral symptoms. Find out if post-viral triggers are present in your body and options for personalized treatments here.
Immune response
The gut immune response includes how the body responds to invaders such as bacteria, viruses or allergens in the gut. This upgrade gives more attention to hay fever, grass pollen, sinus infections and the FUT2 gene, as well as autoimmune diseases such as celiac disease, psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis that arise when the immune system attacks healthy tissue in the gut.
Regenerative Upgrades
Methylation
Methylation, an essential biochemical process in the body, involves the addition of methyl groups to molecules such as DNA, proteins and neurotransmitters. Our gut microbiome, diet and genes can affect methylation capacity. Find out how optimal your methylation is in your body here!
Mitochondrial activity
Mitochondrial vitality, the health and efficiency of the energy-producing organelles in our cells, can be affected by the gut microbiome via metabolite production, regulation of zirtuins, and influence on antioxidants and energy production molecules such as CoQ10, creatine and thiamine. Optimize these processes through this upgrade!
Injury prevention (genome)
Injury predisposition from genes refers to how genetic predisposition can affect our susceptibility to injuries to bone mineral density, soft tissue and specific sports injuries, with an emphasis on genetic risk factors. Use this info to optimize your training, biomechanics, nutrition and lifestyle for injury prevention and optimal training management.
Exercise Upgrades
Readiness
The performance triangle describes your potential within speed, strength and endurance. Our genome determines our potential for physical performance but the gut microbiome and nutrition play important roles in maximizing this potential.
Supercompensation
Progressive training load, gradually increasing the intensity, duration or frequency of your training to make your body stronger. Here we focus on the gut microbiome and genetic influences on injury risk and training response, with the gut microbiome regulating inflammation and immune response and genetic factors determining how the body responds to training and injury.
Muscle Functionality Upgrade
Genetic predisposition to muscle mass determines how easily we build and maintain muscle mass, with genetic variants such as the AMPD1 gene affecting ATP metabolism in muscle cells during physical activity, which is important for performance and recovery. Discover your predisposition for muscle building here!
Recovery efficiency
The gut microbiome produces metabolites essential for promoting recovery after various types of exercise, such as strength training, sprints and endurance training, by reducing inflammation, promoting muscle recovery and replenishing energy reserves. How quickly do you recover after physical exertion?
Fitness
The gut microbiome and its metabolites can improve aerobic trainability, fat burning and time-released decision-making during exercise by supporting energy supply, promoting fatty acid oxidation and enhancing cognitive functions. Go deeper into optimizing your fitness with this upgrade.
Type of sports nutrition
The gut microbiome plays a crucial role in sports nutrition by contributing to fuel supply and maintaining proper hydration and electrolyte balance during exercise, especially through the processing of nutrients such as carbohydrates and the regulation of water and electrolyte absorption. Find out how best to eat around a workout here.
Cognitive Upgrades
Gut-Brain Resilience - Upgrade
The gut microbiome plays a crucial role in gut-brain resilience and influences brain fog, migraine and jet lag resilience through its effect on inflammatory responses, neurotransmitters and the body's circadian clock. At this upgrade, we will take a closer look at these specific effects.
Sleep and relaxation - Upgrade
The genome plays a role in determining whether a person is a morning person, evening person or mixed type, while the gut microbiome influences sleep and relaxation markers by producing neurotransmitters and supporting melatonin for deep sleep. Learn to optimize your sleep and relaxation habits through this upgrade!
Stress resilience - Upgrade
This upgrade explores the relationship between the gut microbiome and stress resilience, where both the gut and oral microbiome can affect mental resilience by influencing the production of neurotransmitters such as serotonin, GABA, dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine. We analyze these parameters so you can maximize your mental resilience.
Adrenal resilience
Adrenal resilience refers to the body's ability to regulate stress and maintain a balanced production of cortisol, with the gut microbiome playing a role by influencing communication with the HPA axis and supporting recovery processes after stressful events. Discover your cortisol pattern here!
Wellbeing Upgrades
Metabolic rate
The gut microbiome can regulate metabolic rate by improving insulin sensitivity through the production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) such as acetate, propionate and butyrate, which stabilize blood sugar levels by regulating insulin release and promoting glucose uptake, while it can also influence protein metabolism by producing amino acids and metabolites such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. Learn how to optimize your metabolic rate here.
Weight Management - Upgrade
Find out which diet best suits your gut microbiome here, as everyone has a unique genome and gut microbiome that can exhibit different responses to diets ranging from hyperprotein, ketogenic, intermittent fasting, low FODMAP, high-fiber, Mediterranean to chrononutrition, all of which can affect metabolism, digestion and health.
Lifespan
Microbiome-host crosstalk may affect longevity and aging through regulation of inflammation, oxidative stress, energy metabolism, and cell survival, including levels of klotho, autophagy, telomeres, NAD+ metabolism, mitochondrial function, sirtuins, and the mTOR signaling pathway. We map this out for you with this upgrade!
Skin Health - Upgrade
The gut-skin axis may affect the aging process, wrinkle formation and response to mosquito bites, with this upgrade focusing on these phenomena by examining markers such as short-chain fatty acids and cytokines.