The science, in plain language

What is multi-omics?

“Multi-omics” means reading several layers of your biology together, rather than looking at any single one on its own. Each “ome” is a whole layer of you: the genome (your DNA), the microbiome (the community of microbes living in your gut), the metabolome (the small molecules your body produces as it turns food into energy), and more.

On its own, each layer tells only part of the story. Read together, they describe how your body actually works day to day — because the meaning lives in how the layers connect. A genetic tendency might be softened or amplified by what your gut and blood are doing right now; one signal qualifies another.

In NutriomeNutriome brings genetics, gut microbiome, blood and metabolism into one personalised picture — so the layers are read together, not as separate tests.

What is metabolomics?

Metabolomics is the study of metabolites — the thousands of small molecules your body produces as it breaks down food, builds tissue and turns nutrients into energy. Together they form a real-time portrait of your metabolism.

Where a standard blood test measures a handful of specific markers, metabolomics uses a mass-spectrometry platform to measure thousands of these molecules at once. That gives a far broader picture of how your metabolism is working today — a snapshot that can shift as your habits and rhythms do, which is why it is worth re-measuring over time.

In NutriomeMetabolomics is the deepest metabolic layer in Nutriome, run by a dedicated specialist laboratory and included with Precision.

What is the gut microbiome?

Your gut microbiome is the living community of bacteria, fungi and other microbes that share your digestive system — trillions of them, carrying their own genes and their own activity. It is an ecosystem, and like any ecosystem its balance and diversity matter.

This community helps you digest food, produces compounds your body draws on, and connects in many ways to the rest of how you feel. Nutriome explores it across three layers: the ecosystem itself (who is there), what it does (the functions it carries out), and how it may relate to other areas of your wellbeing.

In NutriomeYour gut microbiome is sequenced from a simple at-home sample by specialist partner laboratories, then explored — never reduced to a single score.

What is nutrigenomics?

Nutrigenomics is the science of how your genes and your nutrition interact: how your inherited profile shapes the way your body works with different foods, nutrients and daily rhythms, and how what you eat interacts in turn with your biology.

It is part of why two people can follow the same diet and respond quite differently. Your DNA is read once, because it does not change — and nutrigenomics is how that inherited layer informs the rest of your personalised picture, giving context to everything measured in the present.

In NutriomeIn Nutriome, your genetics form the inherited foundation that everything else is read against — “your inherited profile suggests a tendency”, never a verdict.

Keep exploring

See the eight areas of wellbeing Nutriome reads together, follow the journey from sample to picture, or compare the Core and Precision packages.