Precision Gut Health Treatment

Who Is This Test Recommended For?

If you’ve been experiencing unwanted digestive symptoms with zero answers, then a Co-biome microbiome test can help uncover the root cause to: 

• Abdominal cramping or pain
• Bloating
• Constipation
• Diarrhoea
• Excess gas
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Recurrent worm or parasite infections

Gut Health and Diseases

You might have heard the adage, “all disease begins in the gut,” by the Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. Fortunately, science has caught up in the last 5 years with extensive microbiome research showing us there is a huge connection between the gut and a wide variety of symptoms and diseases.

Even if you don’t experience any obvious digestive symptoms, evidence suggests there is a connection between your gut health and the following health concerns.

These include:

• Acne
• Allergies
• Anxiety
• Autoimmune Disease
• Brain Fog
• Chronic inflammation
• Depression
• Eczema
• Fatigue
• Hormonal imbalances such as oestrogen dominance associated with heavy, painful periods
• Hashimotos or Hypothyroidism
• Metabolic and weight concerns
• Poor immune function
• Psoriasis
• Seborrheic dermatitis

What Does It Test For?

The Co-biome test combines metagenomic sequencing to map your whole gut microbiome (no other microbiome test in Australia does this) with gastrointestinal health markers for a complete assessment of your gut.

This includes:

• Metagenomic identification of >28 000 microbial species including bacteria, archaea, fungi and parasites
• Calprotectin (inflammation of the gut mucosa)
• Faecal Secretory IgA (gut immunity)
• Faecal pH
• Lactoferrin (associated with gut inflammation)
• Pancreatic elastase (digestion)
• Zonulin (leaky gut syndrome)
• Beta-glucuronidase (how well your digestive system detoxes oestrogen and toxins)
• Microbial markers such as butyrate, hexa-LPS, TMA, hydrogen sulphide and methane
• Histamine, ammonia and GABA

These markers may sound overwhelming and mean absolutely nothing to you. But don’t worry I know exactly how to interpret them from my training with Co-Biome and the senior scientist of Microba, combined with my experience as a gut health Naturopath to give you an effective and personalised treatment plan.

At the end of the day, microbiome testing is incredible and can give such useful insight into the underlying cause of your digestive complaints without the guess work!

But if you do not have a skilled clinician who can interpret the result and tailor a treatment plan to your needs, it’s simply a waste of money.