Item: Tiny Health
Rating: 5
Author: Katie R

Tiny Health offers personalized gut health testing for babies and kids.

Tiny Health is the most accurate and affordable at-home gut test for parents to monitor and optimize their baby’s gut health development in those crucial early years. By testing and taking action to address any bacterial imbalances in early life, parents may be able to reduce and even reverse risks of eczema, allergies, asthma, autism and other chronic diseases later in life.

With 80% of the human immune system living in the gut, it’s vital that the microbiome is properly established in the first 1,000 days of life. The baby inherits their pioneering microbiome from the mother via the vaginal canal at birth. Unfortunately, with increasing C-section rates, formula-feeding, rising antibiotics use and other environmental toxins, modern children may suffer the unintended consequences of a disrupted microbiome.

All Tiny Health’s tests are processed in a CLIA-certified lab in the US which is held to clinical standards. As the first-ever baby gut test using shotgun metagenomics sequencing, which is a huge advancement from PCR-based gut tests that you normally get at a physician’s office, Tiny Health provides strain-level precision and a comprehensive list of all gut and vaginal microbes including bacteria, fungi, parasites, viruses, and archaea, along with its relative abundances in your community. Every report includes a personalized interpretation and is reviewed by a team of microbiome experts. More importantly, Tiny Health provides actionable and evidence-based recommendations to give each baby the best possible start in life.


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I'd rate this company 10/10!  My son did not have any major concerns, but as a mom I wanted to make sure I was doing everything I possibly could for his future health. The insights Tiny Health provided into my son's gut microbiome health were invaluable.  I was lucky to have a vaginal birth with no interventions, and I'm still breastfeeding at 18 months. However, despite this, my son's gut had some areas of concern. He only had 49% beneficial bacteria, and also had  high levels of an unfriendly microbe that can be associated with T1D later in life. The Action Plan in my son's report was clear and easy to understand, and there is so much valuable information on the report that I feel like I am learning something new every time I re-read it. I also opted to have a consult call with one of their experts.  I started him on one of the recommended probiotics and also implemented dietary changes.  I signed up for the subscription and I'm excited to monitor how these actions will impact my son's gut microbiome.   I also learned you have so much more ability to positively impact gut health during the first 1000 days, so time is of the essence- don't wait to test if you're thinking about it! 

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