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Has anyone else gotten results from uBiome? I just received my results today and they were very interesting. My results seem to fit with the findings by De Meirleir.
The uBiome dashboard is still in beta so there should be more information soon, but the key chart compares my top 5 phylum % to the average user's phylum %.
Here are the top 5:
Firmucites Me: 74.99% Avg: 63.77%
Bacteroidetes Me: 11.86% Avg: 30.69% (matches De Meirleir's findings)
Proteobacteria Me: 6.22% Avg: 2.29%
Verrucomicrobia Me: 4.55% Avg: 0.68%
Actinobacteria Me: 2.08% Avg: 1.64%
I can also compare myself against a lot of different subgroups, including vegans, folks following a paleo diet and heavy drinkers. They all seem to have 30-32% Bacteroidetes so my numbers were significantly different.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23791918 has info on De Meirleir's findings. It should be interesting to compare results across our community.
There are a lot of other outliers but I don't know how significant they are until I can see more data; for example I have 160x less cyanobacteria than their average sample, but I don't know the total number of samples and how certain the results are below the five most common phylum.
The uBiome dashboard is still in beta so there should be more information soon, but the key chart compares my top 5 phylum % to the average user's phylum %.
Here are the top 5:
Firmucites Me: 74.99% Avg: 63.77%
Bacteroidetes Me: 11.86% Avg: 30.69% (matches De Meirleir's findings)
Proteobacteria Me: 6.22% Avg: 2.29%
Verrucomicrobia Me: 4.55% Avg: 0.68%
Actinobacteria Me: 2.08% Avg: 1.64%
I can also compare myself against a lot of different subgroups, including vegans, folks following a paleo diet and heavy drinkers. They all seem to have 30-32% Bacteroidetes so my numbers were significantly different.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23791918 has info on De Meirleir's findings. It should be interesting to compare results across our community.
There are a lot of other outliers but I don't know how significant they are until I can see more data; for example I have 160x less cyanobacteria than their average sample, but I don't know the total number of samples and how certain the results are below the five most common phylum.
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