Uploads are welcome for all conditions

• PLEASE Add your symptoms after uploading so your ubiome may be used to detect patterns. see  Adding Symptoms to your uBiome.

Downloading your uBiome data

After logging into uBiome, you will see an ‘Advanced’ tab on your menu  bar.

• Click it
• A dropdown menu will appear
• Click ‘Download’
• Choices will appear on the left.

Some people report not seeing this. Wait 60 seconds and press F5 (Refresh) — it will usually appear then.

• Click on Download Taxonomy (Json)
• Depending on your browser, you may see the data in a new tab or be prompted for a name
• 
• If the above case, a Control- S should bring up a dialog to save it:
• 
• I usually add .json to the end

Using A Mac

• MAC’s will often save it as a .webarchive which will not work for an upload. So:
  • Open a Text Editor
  • Copy  the entire page and paste it into the text editor.
  • Save the file

You are now ready to upload!

Uploading

Go to http://microbiomeprescription.com/Home/Upload

Enter your email and select the file you downloaded above. Then click ‘Upload and Consent’.

• You may enter a second email or label to help you track the sample.

Choices After Uploading

After uploading you will see three choices (more if you have uploaded multiple samples).

• The first one takes you to recommendations
• The second one takes you to a screen to record or update your symptoms
• The third one allows you to change the extra email or label on the sample.

Top Choice – Recommendations

At present, the recommendations are based on OVERGROWTH only. This will be improved in the future

Visual Display in a Tree

On the menus you will see “Your microbiome tree”

This will display your data in a tree with overgrowth in red.

Your Species

Another choice on the menu is “Your species” – This is in the download from uBiome but they do not display it on their site. You can see them here. An example is below (do not expect to see this many)

The Second Choice is Adding symptoms

I will cover this in another post, Adding Symptoms to your uBiome.

Bottom Line

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.

I have programmed (and hopefully improved) my process for analysis of uBiomes. It is still being debugged (and I doing a few of my backlog to test it).

See your Microbiome shifts in a tree

This allows a much clearer view of where hotspots of overgrowth are occurring.

The factor shown are NOT from ubiome, but from my estimates (which will evolve). So what are uBiomes numbers?

We are close, very close (1.74 vs 1.73, 3.71 vs 3.71,  3.96 vs 3.97).

All of the bacteria levels are hyperlinked to more information about each.

Recommendations

Recommendations are often increased and there can be some conflicts. For example, Walnuts, High Fat Diet, Vitamin D. This is because different bacteria reacts differently.

Learning More

Clicking on an item like Vitamin D, will show you what we know that vitamin D changes (with the source of information)

Bottom Line

The new do-the-analysis yourself site does a deeper evaluations of each item and their impact with full transparency to the data source.

I hope to have public uploads enabled within the week. There is a lot of data to be added to it, so it may be a month or more before that is complete. DataPunk data is complete — so there is a reasonable amount of data now (i.e. for the above, we have a long list of items suggested already).

If there are too many items, just go for the ones with the highest weights.

If you have downloaded your uBiome as Json and read the contents, you will see that some bacteria species are reported. Here is a list that I have compiled (likely incomplete).

Species Seen in various Reports

It is interesting to note that Lactobacillus Reuteri is not listed. Is it because it was not detected in any samples OR is it hard to identify?

In coding up a website to make analysis easier, I had to figure out what uBiome deems to be normal. Getting a standard for a microbiome is very fuzzy and any standard can be challenged endlessly.

With CFS/FM/IBS, we rather work with poor assumptions instead of waiting further generations for a better answer to occur(whether that is possible is also debatable!).

The following are my inferences that uBiome may be using.

The Phylum or Top Level

The Class or Second Layer

The Order or Third Layer

The Family or Fourth Layer

The Genus or Fifth Layer