Guest Spotlight, Intus Bioscience: Revolutionise Your Approach to Wellness with GutID
Interested in Wellness, Longevity or Managing IBS? GutID is for you.
Most of you isn’t human. In fact, by some measures you are mainly bacterial, with bacterial cells outnumbering your human cells by 10:1, with the number of bacterial genes vs human genes, several orders of magnitude higher still.
The bacteria in the body is a collection of microorganisms, otherwise known as the microbiome. Though there are various microbiomes in (and on) the body, such as oral and skin, the microbiome is typically in reference to gut bacteria, which is the largest and most important collection of bacteria in us.
Gut Bacteria Plays a Fundamental Role in Health and Disease
The extent and role of the microbiome began to be discovered only in the last 20 years, as the DNA sequencing technologies used to identify bacteria became more powerful. Since then, thousands of studies have been published, showing it plays a key role in diseases ranging from cancer and diabetes to Parkinson’s and depression. It has also been consistently linked to behaviour, digestion and gut function, immune response and much more.
Understanding Your Microbiome is Critical to Managing Your Health
Despite its importance to health outcomes, until now a lack of technology has prevented it from playing an equivalent role in healthcare. There are microbiome tests on the market, but they have proven unreliable, with both a lack of detail and repeatability, preventing widespread use.
Repeatability issues mean that even the same test can produce wildly different results from the same sample or patient. This means it’s impossible to know what the right result is, creating a huge amount of uncertainty especially when results change over time, because it is unclear whether change is real or just the variability of the test.
This situation has now changed with the launch of the first truly accurate microbiome test, GutID.
A New Test ‘Sees’ the Microbiome with Unprecedented Accuracy
GutID finally gives patients and clinicians a robust and accurate way to ‘see’ and manage the microbiome, in turn giving them a critical new tool to manage health. GutID uses a completely new technology for analysing the microbiome, developed by the scientists at Intus Bio, in the United States.
GutID is powered by Intus Bio’s Titan-1 platform, a new generation of microbiome sequencing and analysis technology, designed from scratch to over come the issues with previous approaches. This means accurate, and therefore actionable results. Titan-1 is so powerful, it is already being used by researchers to identify key bacteria for the diagnosis, early detection and prevention of cancer.
Simple and Easy at Home Test
GutID is a simple and easy at home test. A small amount of stool is easily and cleanly collected in the tube provided, which is then shipped to a laboratory for processing. The collection tube includes a fluid which preserves the sample, to ensure accurate results. The sample does not need to be stored in the fridge, and has been proven to be stable for many weeks.
Clear, Actionable and Accurate Reports are a Game Changer for Health
GutID reports are designed to be clear, simple, and easy to follow. The first page gives a summary of the microbiome, including a detailed data visualisation, down to the critical strain level and a microbiome health score. The rest of the report provides further details where issues have been flagged and provides recommendations to fix issues such as diet changes, supplements and probiotics. Working with a healthcare professional is always recommended when deciding next steps.
Manage Wellness and Health with new insights, powered by High Resolution Data
Though the role of the microbiome, and how it interacts with the body is still not fully understood, the fact it plays a fundamental role in health, is well established. And though everybody is unique, enough is known to assess healthy and unhealthy microbiomes. The microbiome or ‘invisible you’ as it is known, can contain pathogens and other bacteria which could lead to longer term health problems, even in otherwise healthy people. Testing the microbiome using GutID, can now play a real role in managing long term health and wellness.
GutID helps Manage IBS
GutID provides relief to Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) sufferers. This potentially debilitating condition, impacts the lives of millions of people globally, with no real diagnosis or clear pathway to remedy. Irregular gut function (such as recurring diarrhoea, constipation or both) can go unchecked for years, causing anxiety and negatively impacting the quality of life.
GutID can generate new insights to help sufferers, by revealing issues with their gut bacteria, known to impact gut function. This can be identifying the presence of a pathogen or proteo-bacteria such as E. Coli, the absence of certain bacteria or the overgrowth of others.
Multiple patients have found the insights GutID has provided, and the interventions it prompted, as ‘life changing.’
GutID is the Start of a New Beginning for Healthcare
The microbiome is a huge new opportunity to prevent disease and to improve health and wellness. GutID leverages a transformative new technology, to finally allow the microbiome to be managed in a robust, transparent and data driven manner, opening the door to an exciting future for healthcare.
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About the Author
Intus Biosciences
Was founded by a team with a deep expertise in NGS, and a desire to bring the full power of this technology to the identification of bacteria. Bacteria plays an enormous role in every aspect of health, but a much smaller role in healthcare.
These efforts have been hugely successful, and the Intus Bio Titan-1 Platform, powered by our patented and proprietary technology, is the most powerful of its kind in the world.
Incredible insights powered by Intus Bio are now helping pharmaceutical and biotherapeutic companies, as well as powering groundbreaking new services for patients.