Metabotracker™

Monitoring the status of health is important​ as typical modern dietary patterns — high sodium, cholesterol, added sugars, saturated fats coupled with low fiber intake — are driving several public health concerns (O’Keefe et al., 2015).

These consumption patterns are associated with an elevated risk of obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which are those that cannot be transmitted from person-to-person, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

Of notable concern are low to middle-income countries where the growing consumption of energy-dense foods is creating new health challenges, such as higher rates of type 2 diabetes. Observation of higher-income countries offers little comfort, as no country has succeeded in reversing rates of obesity. If left unchecked, NCDs are predicted to rise, bringing additional burdens to healthcare systems and economies. Altogether, this highlights the need for improved approaches in tackling this issue.

Based on a small sample of morning urine (low invasiveness), the technology, Metabotracker working on our NMR based IVDr platform, provides a unique overview of a person’s health status or metabolic fingerprint and generates personalized dietary recommendations within minutes.​​

NMR methodology provides a unique overview of a person‘s health status:

• 100 health relevant parameters with one measurement
• Personal health assesment and fitness guidance combined in one initiative
• Early recognition of emerging deficiencies
• Repeated tests allow for quicker identification of individual athlete trends, both normal and atypical
• Process is confidential, secure and quick

• Quantified methodology to assist dietitians and nutritionists in providing their clients with the personal advice they need to achieve their health and fitness-related goals and to track progress over time to measure the impact of dietary interventions and achieve longitudinal behavior change.
• Personalized Analysis solution to follow improvement of health status , optimize dietary or physical intervention
• Easy monitoring, immediate feedback on success of actions
• Multiparametric analysis to check adherence of a person’s diet to WHO standards.
• Monitoring nutritional and lifestyle influences on metabolic profile with only one NMR analysis
• Metabolomics is highly dynamic, combined with NMR reproducibility this allows for recognition of multiple small changes in contrast to genomics-based tests which are static.
• Multiple marker evaluation in one measurement (By multivariate analysis)
• Sample preparation time minimized
• Cost efficient with one test delivering a large number of parameters•
• Especially relevant for high-performance athletes, people at risk of developing obesity or diabetes, as well as health-conscious individuals that increasingly use personal health monitoring tools.

• Simple sample collection and transfer at room temperature for < 24 hours, with coolpack for > 24 hours
• Reliable solution, MTBF > 9 Months
• Full automation allowing day to day operation by MTA
• Automatic QC sample measurement and analysis
• Extensive QC documentation
• Report easy to understand and free of any NMR language or spectra
• Data security standards fulfilled
• Access of patients via website or smartphone app
• Availability of support to further explain results