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AN INSIDER’S GUIDE TO GUT HEALTH TRACKING WITH UBIOME.COM
Back in June of 2018, freshly stable from a newly adopted regime of long-term antibiotics for recurrent CDiff, I embarked on a journey to discover more about my daughter’s gut health. The idea initially was to wean off of vancomycin - her main oral antibiotic- the miracle worker that stopped all gut distress, returned stool to normal, and with that - the craziness of breathing issues, seizures, and near-constant hospitalizations for over a 16 months all stopped.
She gained weight, we went on vacation for the first time in two years. She came alive. But the weaning had to happen, no one can be on vancomycin forever, right? It causes its own issues, killing not only bad bacteria but good too. Lots of acid, yeast problems, nausea. But overall for the first few months, it was great. To prep for our wean attempts (I say attempts because we tried 5x unsuccessfully to come off), I wanted to diversify her microbiome and support the growth of healthy bacteria. We were making lots of changes with diet, going vegan for one, setting her up on new probiotics and actively introducing new foods with good bacteria she wouldn’t be exposed to normally (Korean pickled plums anyone?!).
Going off a recommendation from a friend, I was introduced to Ubiome. As their website states, Ubiome literally is ‘pioneering a new era of microbiome-based precision medicine’. What they do is make it easy to test and track your poo, or your kids, when you want, all while at home. You sign up, give insurance information, they send a kit one at a time to your home (we signed up for 10 total). It’s literally poo-testing done at home when you want. What you get back is data. And lots of it.
AN INSIDER’S GUIDE TO GUT HEALTH TRACKING WITH UBIOME.COM
Back in June of 2018, freshly stable from a newly adopted regime of long-term antibiotics for recurrent CDiff, I embarked on a journey to discover more about my daughter’s gut health. The idea initially was to wean off of vancomycin - her main oral antibiotic- the miracle worker that stopped all gut distress, returned stool to normal, and with that - the craziness of breathing issues, seizures, and near-constant hospitalizations for over a 16 months all stopped.
She gained weight, we went on vacation for the first time in two years. She came alive. But the weaning had to happen, no one can be on vancomycin forever, right? It causes its own issues, killing not only bad bacteria but good too. Lots of acid, yeast problems, nausea. But overall for the first few months, it was great. To prep for our wean attempts (I say attempts because we tried 5x unsuccessfully to come off), I wanted to diversify her microbiome and support the growth of healthy bacteria. We were making lots of changes with diet, going vegan for one, setting her up on new probiotics and actively introducing new foods with good bacteria she wouldn’t be exposed to normally (Korean pickled plums anyone?!).
Going off a recommendation from a friend, I was introduced to Ubiome. As their website states, Ubiome literally is ‘pioneering a new era of microbiome-based precision medicine’. What they do is make it easy to test and track your poo, or your kids, when you want, all while at home. You sign up, give insurance information, they send a kit one at a time to your home (we signed up for 10 total). It’s literally poo-testing done at home when you want. What you get back is data. And lots of it.
There are a bunch of reviews that are negative and a few that are positive for this company. Scientists say the claims the website makes are way ahead of the science that is currently available.
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