Many things are decided in the intestines.
Fatigue, weight, immune system, even mood — amazingly much has its origins where no one is looking. The gut is a control center. And his condition can be seriously examined if you do it right.
Why the gut controls so much.
Billions of microorganisms colonize the gut — together they form the microbiome. If the right ones are in the right balance, they support digestion, immune defense and metabolism. If they get out of balance, suffers far more than just digestion.
The problem with the popular home tests: They provide a snapshot without interpretation. Stiftung Warentest and experts have repeatedly criticized such self-tests because they lack the medical classification and they often result in the sale of preparations. A list of bacteria is not yet a finding – what a doctor reads from it is crucial.
This is not a test or diagnosis. But if you have nodded on several points, it is worth a well-founded, medically accompanied examination.
Typical Questions and Observations
These indications are not self-diagnosis. They help to arrange the personal concern for a specialist discussion.
- You often feel tired or sluggish, with no clear explanation.
- digestion, bloating or intolerances deal with you.
- They gain or lose weight without much having changed.
- You are more susceptible to infections than you used to be.
- You have taken a home test and do not know what the results mean.
- You want to understand your health at the root, not at the surface.
Why people who wear a lot?
Irregular meals, business meals, travel, stress and one or the other antibiotic cycle – hardly anything burdens the microbiome as much as a life under high pressure. The consequences are diffuse and are rarely associated with the intestine.
At the same time, many people use expensive powders and probiotics from the net without knowing if they need anything at all. This is an expensive aftertaste. A serious analysis replaces presumption with knowledge – and saves money and disappointment in the end.
No guess. One finding.
At re:NOW, we analyze your microbiome using modern techniques — but what matters is what happens afterwards: we interpret the results medically and in connection with nutrition, stress, discomfort and other values. No powder sale, but classification.
This results in a concrete, tailor-made strategy for a bowel that carries you instead of brakes. Accompanied by doctors who listen instead of handling.
In a place where the monastery kitchen also belongs to medicine: the Kloster Beuerberg on Lake Starnberg.
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What does the gut have to do with my general health?
More than long thought. In the intestine sits a large part of the immune system, it affects the metabolism, the absorption of nutrients and via the intestinal-brain axis even mood and energy. A microbiome that is out of balance can make itself felt elsewhere — as fatigue, inflammation, or weight problems.
Are the microbiome home tests from the Internet useful?
With caution. Consumer tests of this kind have been repeatedly criticized because the results are difficult to classify and often follow questionable product recommendations. A snapshot without medical interpretation says little. Decisive is not the test alone, but who interprets it and puts it in your overall state.
How is a medical microbiome analysis performed at re:NOW?
We examine the composition of your intestinal flora with modern procedures and consider it not in isolation, but in connection with nutrition, stress, discomfort and your other values. This results in a concrete recommendation tailored to you – no selling of powders.
Can the microbiome be specifically improved?
Yes. The microbiome is astonishingly changeable – via diet, lifestyle and, where appropriate, targeted measures. Unlike the genes, it is something that you can actively influence. This is what makes it such a worthwhile starting point.
The microbiome is more complex than a single finding.
An analysis can provide clues, but does not replace a clinical classification of complaints and lifestyle.
microbiome diagnostics
microbiome diagnostics examines selected characteristics of the intestinal flora. Significance and consequences depend on method, question and complaints; not every deviation requires treatment.
The terms serve for comprehensible orientation. Which diagnosis or therapy is medically useful is decided only after personal medical assessment.