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Your Microbiome

A Vital Part of Our Gut Health

The human gut is home to trillions of microorganisms, which are collectively known as the microbiome. These microbes play a vital part in our gut health, supporting digestion and the synthesis of vitamins.

Symptoms and diagnoses

SmartGut™ is a screening test that can help you monitor your overall gut health regularly.

It detects the microorganisms associated with several common gut symptoms, including:

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  • Abdominal pain/tenderness

  • Constipation

  • Crohn's disease/Ulcerative Colitis

  • Bloating

  • Diarrhea

  • Gas

  • General Screening

  • Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

The Microbiome and Blood Sugar Management

  • High interpersonal variability in post-meal sugar observed in an 800-person cohort

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  • Using personal and microbiome features enables accurate sugar response prediction

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  • Prediction is accurate and superior to common practice in an independent cohort

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  • Short-term personalized dietary interventions successfully lower post-meal sugar

Personalized Nutrition/ Cell November 19, 2015 (Vol. 163 issue 5)

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