Symptoms are only collected for uBiome samples. The reason is simple, we need lots of data on bacteria to go with lots of symptoms to isolate patterns.

Getting to the Symptoms List

There are three ways of getting to the menu shown below

• From your original upload, see this post  How to upload your uBiome for analysis [Updated]
• Under the Ubiome menu at http://microbiomeprescription.com/  select
  • Login via Sample Id
    
  • Just enter your email and sequence Id (which is in your download file)

This takes you back to the menu that you saw when you finished uploaded.

Click the middle item and you will be taken to the symptom page

Symptom Page

I have updated this page to allow you to update as often as needed. REMEMBER, we want the symptoms when you took the uBiome sample (NOT YOUR CURRENT SYMPTOMS!).

Just check the symptoms that you had. At the bottom of the page click Update

My Symptom is not there!

If you are missing a symptoms, go to the menu and pick Symptoms List.

If you are ‘logged in’ you may add symptoms. Please make sure that you check the list carefully first.

Once the symptom is added, you can return to the “Select Sample to Use” page and then click to update your symptoms.  The new symptom should be there.

The login above, “JohnDoe@Goodle.com” with sample Id “999999” was created as a composite from uploads available when I did this post. Feel free to try it to get a feel of the site before you do an upload.

This is an education post to facilitate discussing this approach with your medical professionals. It is not medical advice for the treatment of any condition. Always consult with your medical professional before doing any  changes of diet, supplements or activity. Some items cites may interfere with prescription medicines.

Ubiome has a clinical test called Smart Gut. I covered it prior with instructions on moving the data to the uBiome Explorer in uBiome’s Smart Gut (with transfer to Explorer) and uBiome’s Clinical Report “Smart Gut”

I got an email asking for a direct entry page. In time I plan to add low bacteria to the uBiome explorer; with this report, I can do low bacteria for Smart Gut data ahead of that work. The page is: http://microbiomeprescription.com/Kyber/SmartGut

Entry Form

The report follow the general sequence and cover most of the same item (excluding the very pathogenic bacteria like salmonella).

The Results

Follow the usual pattern. Items with “2” means 2 of the above bacteria are positively influenced by this. Some like bacillus substilis have 3 favorable and 1 negative.

At the other end, we see gluten free, no high protein/beef being recommended.

At the bottom, we have links to each bacteria that we explicitly have information

Adjusting to include parents and children modifiers

We see two new items appear: barley and inulin. Flaxseed and vegetarian diet appears as to avoid.

This is an education post to facilitate discussing this approach with your medical professionals. It is not medical advice for the treatment of any medical condition. Always consult with your medical professional before doing any  changes of diet, supplements or activity. Some items cites may interfere with prescription medicines.

Another European test (Available here) for 121 Euro (more expensive than uBiome with less data provided). The analyis page is here.

Report

Data Entry

Example Result

This is an education post to facilitate discussing this approach with your medical professionals. It is not medical advice for the treatment of any medical condition. Always consult with your medical professional before doing any  changes of diet, supplements or activity. Some items cites may interfere with prescription medicines.

First thing, the lists are not curated in a medical sense. They are unfiltered ranked items from published studies.

A 6-10 page list of recommendations cweightan occur from some reports. That is overwhelming, especially for the brain fogged. Ideally, a knowledgeable profession familiar with your medical history will go thru the list and pick items appropriate for you.

My common sense suggestions are the following:

• Never take something that you are uncomfortable with
  • You don’t like antibiotics — don’t do them
  • You are a vegan — don’t do a high meat diet
  • Go down a printed copy of the list and put a black line through those items.
• First step is to try reducing the number of items on the Avoid list that you can, items with the highest value weight are likely to have the greatest benefit.
• Second step is to add in 3-6 items on the Take list, items that you are not now taking
  • Highest weight is likely to have the greatest benefit.
  • Items with both a positive and a negative weight are likely less important because they are more uncertain.

When would you expect to see changes? I suspect it will take a month often — and there may be no apparent symptom changes.  After 2-4 months, it is likely best to get another test to see what impact these changes of have on your microbiome.

For myself, licorice made as a significant improvement over a month – I detected it because I took careful notes daily and in retrospective saw the improvement via my notes.

Again the lists are not “YOU  MUST DO ALL OF THESE OR YOU WILL NOT GET BETTER”,  they  are lists of items (some easy to do or obtain, others not) — each of which should contribute a bit more to normalizing you microbiome.

Another reader forwarded a report that I have not created an entry form for. This is one that is likely common in many parts of the world, especially in the US. To access it, click Diagnostic Solution GI-Map.

Report

Input Page

As before, entry matches the report. As with the other Genova input page we have five possible values:

• • ↓↓ – Red Low (left side)
  • ↓ – Yellow Low (left side)
  • ✓
  • ↑  – Yellow High (right side)
  • ↑↑  – Red High (right side)

The Report

For the report from the reader, it amounted to SIX Pages. It is important to understand these are general recommendation, based on the literature, and often need tuning — ideally with a knowledgeable medical profession.

See Making sense of Avoid and Take on Recommendations

This is an education post to facilitate discussing this approach with your medical professionals. It is not medical advice for the treatment of any condition. Always consult with your medical professional before doing any  changes of diet, supplements or activity. Some items cites may interfere with prescription medicines.