Why MICROBIOME TESTING matters
Patients want more information on gut health—but they’re getting incomplete answers, often from sources beyond your purview.
Why does testing matter?
Every day the scientific community is learning more about the negative health consequences when a patient’s intestinal microbiome is out of balance.
But to bring that learning to individual patients, including steps they can take to improve microbiome diversity, we first have to understand their gut microbiome which is as unique as a fingerprint.
What’s currently missing?
Today’s microbiome tests don’t go deep enough to inform a clinician to patient dialogue about gut health.
Sequencing methods often leave out key actors and species-level distinctions in the microbiota present. Recommendations and interpretation, when provided at all, often step beyond what the science supports in the interest of selling supplements.
Which means…
If a patient and clinician have access to a microbiome test at all, it delivers an incomplete picture ill-suited to discussion of science-backed steps to improve the health of that patient’s unique microbiome.
It’s not enough to know the broader strokes or have detail without interpretation. That’s why Tend tests provide better resolution, correlated to personal health data, informing recommendations supported by science.
TEND MICROBIOME TESTING
A clinical picture of the gut microbiome
Provide a comprehensive view of gut health so patients can take action backed by the science and tailored to their unique microbiome.
Our goal is to provide a thorough reporting experience for clinicians so they can convey rapidly emerging microbiome science to patients in an understandable way they can together act on.
HOW IT WORKS
Tend’s microbiome testing and analysis connects high resolution patient microbiome and personal health data to power tailored improvement plans.
TEST
Gather Baseline
Patients submit personal health profiles and provide samples through our easy-to-use test kit. Phenotypic data is also collected as additional points of reference.
PERSONAL REPORT
Analyze & Act
Samples are sequenced, analyzed and correlated to personal health profile information to deliver comprehensive reports and unique improvement recommendations.
Follow up
Assess Impact
Clinician and patient together determine course of action and track changes over time through repeat testing.
How is Tend Different?
Context
We bring the data depth and detail of a research lab to the clinician-patient dialogue with reporting designed for practical discussions about the microbiome in treatment context—and as an ongoing health marker to track and manage.
ScIENTIFIC RIGOR
Shotgun metagenomics sequencing technology that captures the resolution required - microbiota down to the species level along with other key actors like virus, fungi and parasites - to power scientifically justified observations and recommendations.
PERSONALIZATION FOR INDIVIDUAL IMPACT
Clinicians and patients get a clear picture of microbiome baseline and ideas for how to improve it based on that patient’s unique inputs without trying to sell them something else.
Microbiome reports clinicians and patients can leverage for insight and action
SCREEN
For hard to detect parasites and fungus.
IDENTIFY
Patients that may be at risk for certain conditions due to the gene expression of a particular bacterial strain.
TRACK
Track whether diet and lifestyle changes made by a patient are having a biological effect.
