The Process

Mapping the Unseen.

Four simple steps to understand your inner ecosystem.

01

Order Your Kit

The Biome Atlas kit arrives at your door in an unassuming package. Inside, you'll find everything you need to collect a sample, plus a prepaid return mailer.

02

Collect Your Sample

No blood, no clinic visit. Using the provided swab, you collect a tiny stool sample in the privacy of your own bathroom. The specialized tube preserves the microbial DNA perfectly at room temperature.

03

The Lab Works Its Magic

Drop the prepaid mailer in any mailbox. Once it reaches our certified core sequencing lab, we use advanced 16S rRNA sequencing to identify the bacterial communities present.

04

Explore Your Field Guide

About 2 weeks after your sample ships to the lab, your digital Field Guide is ready. We translate the raw sequencing data into a beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read map of your inner ecosystem, complete with actionable, food-first recommendations to help it thrive.

Under the hood

No black-box scores.

Want the clinical version? Read exactly how we read your microbiome — 16S sequencing, DADA2, the GTDB reference database — and why we won’t show you a score we can’t defend.

Our methodology