This set of tools is designed for two scenarios:
- One person who has had many samples of time. Typically that person is looking for outliers to reduce or disappear
- A family with samples from different members. Typically one person is challenged and since the family group has shared DNA and diet — the hope is that the bacteria grouping causing the challenge will be identified. Once identified, it may be actionable.
- This scenario will have more tools added over the next weeks.
I have used them in these prior posts:
If you have two or more samples uploaded, you will see the top two items on the Available Samples page. These may be collapsed into one over the next few weeks.
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Clicking the right button of these two will take you to a sample selection page.
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The program will list all items below that matches all samples OR all samples except 1 (but at least two).
I selected a group of 5 samples from when I was having a ME/CFS flare.
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IMHO, it correctly identified what was wrong with me.
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Doing some research, I found “. L-tryptophan is produced in the shikimate pathway from chorismate” Which lead to many ME/CFS articles on PubMed.
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Again, it may take some research to understand what this is.
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The cause of ME/CFS flare was stress and a quick search on PubMed found several articles where this genus increased with stress, the latest was “Gut Microbiota Are Associated With Psychological Stress-Induced Defections in Intestinal and Blood–Brain Barriers“[2020]
Bottom Line
This set of tools does not give immediate answers; it gives you leads to investigate. For myself, the findings plus the use of PubMed studies weaved a story of what happened that agrees with the literature. This is very important because ME/CFS contains dozens of subsets. Often I have seen that what is helpful for one subset is harmful for another. I suspect this also applies to other conditions, such as ASD/Autism.
In this case, it identified one key family to reduce. Identified enzymes that I was short on. Lead to a possible supplements that I should consider because of the dysruption.
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