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Precision pet care, underpinned by years of research, thousands of lab samples, and our advanced machine learning analysis – it's all been designed for your dog’s lasting wellbeing.
The health of your dog’s gut microbiome – an ecosystem of microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, and fungi) that live in their digestive system – can have a wide impact on overall wellbeing.
Back when dogs foraged for food, they used to enrich their microbiomes the natural way. Today, these critical nutrients and vitamins are missing in modern diets and lifestyles, so microbial communities can quickly go out of balance (dysbiosis).
The bacteria in your dog’s microbiome are not only responsible for producing chemicals for digestion, but 70% of their immune system lies in the lining of the gut and the chemicals they produce send signals all over the body to control processes from disease control, mood, skin reactions and even cellular repair. Clinical studies show that over 90% of dogs will experience at least one avoidable symptom of poor microbiome health each year. Is your dog one of them?
In a ground-breaking new partnership, Guide Dogs UK has teamed up with BIOME9 to explore and optimise the gastrointestinal health of their puppies as they train to be guide dogs.
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There are many tools to help manage our dogs' behaviour, such as training and physical activity. However, did you know that the microbiome is an underused resource in addressing unwanted behaviours and even influencing your dog's anxiety and stress levels?
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Various bacterial species coexist in the canine gut microbiome, each playing a role in digestion, immune function, and overall health.
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Allergic disease makes up a large proportion of the reason dogs are brought to vets, particularly with conditions relating to the skin.
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We use human-grade, 16s-rRNA sequencing to identify millions of unique data points from the bacteria present in your dog’s sample. These are run through the InvisibleHealth® Platform, using our AI protocols, and mapped against one of the largest libraries of canine metadata in the world, to spot bioinformatic patterns that would be impossible for humans to identify.
We match how your dog’s diet and microbial makeup could be linked to biomarkers for:
Through years of research at our pioneering biotech centre in Cambridge Science Park, your dog’s GutDiscovery® Microbiome Profile test report is created and analysed as the result of exploration into millions of biomarkers - making it a gold-standard for canine health insight.
Think of it as a detailed map of your dog’s gut health, comparing it against an even larger dataset. It will guide you through the findings and our simple solutions to bring balance back to their microbiome. Beyond that, it can even highlight early indicators of potential health concerns so that you can proactively address them with your vet.
Your dog's sample contributes to our growing bank of data and new research. Thanks to our InvisbleHealth® platform, we’re able to detect new patterns and pinpoint emerging biomarkers to draw connections to a dog's overall health; these discoveries hold the potential to identify early indicators of disease in otherwise healthy dogs. And even new disease identification.
In the future, using the right preventative care and proven nutrition strategies, we could extend the lifespan of dogs who would otherwise be predisposed to shorter and less happy lives.
Match your dog’s profile to data from 1000s of GutDiscovery® tests and microbiome research.
