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The latest ideas, insights, and inspiration, expertly curated to empower you on your health journey. Learn more about systems biology and the many ways the microbiome plays a critical role in your health & wellness.

Summer, Set, Go: 5 Ways to Look & Feel Your Best This Summer

Summer, Set, Go: 5 Ways to Look & Feel Your Best This Summer

Get ready to feel your summer best from the top of your head to the tips of your toes in the sand.

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Iced Mango Pineapple Green Tea

Iced Mango Pineapple Green Tea

A naturally sweetened green iced tea, perfect for sipping in the summer sunshine.

Get Away From it All Without Going Anywhere: 4 Ways to Relax in or Near Your Own Backyard

Get Away From it All Without Going Anywhere: 4 Ways to Relax in or Near Your Own Backyard

It’s officially time to enjoy some well-deserved R&R–outside.

Grilled Shrimp & Zucchini Skewers

Grilled Shrimp & Zucchini Skewers

Warmer weather means it’s time to grill! Here’s a light shrimp dish perfect for summer.

Illuminating the Health Benefits of Sunlight

Illuminating the Health Benefits of Sunlight

Sol gives life to planet Earth, and is essential to our health and well-being.

Summer-yum Fruity, Fresh Salad

Recipes

Summer-yum Fruity, Fresh Salad

A colorful salad with the best summer has to offer, plus cucumber for crunch!

How to Find Your Community to Support Your Health Journey

How to Find Your Community to Support Your Health Journey

Groups you are part of create connection and can be a positive influence on your health journey.

Leaky Gum Syndrome: What You Don't Know About Your Poor Oral Health Can Hurt You

Oral Health

Leaky Gum Syndrome: What You Don't Know About Your Poor Oral Health Can Hurt You

You may have heard about how a “leaky gut” can affect your health. But what about “leaky gums?"

How Your Everyday Food Choices Are Influencing Your Mood

Nutrition

How Your Everyday Food Choices Are Influencing Your Mood

What does the Gut-Brain Axis have to do with the foods you eat and your day to day mood? More than you think!

Why You Should Move More to Boost Digestion

Lifestyle

Why You Should Move More to Boost Digestion

Turns out movement is good for your body and your microbes. How can physical activity benefit your gut microbiome balance and diversity?

Summer Squash, Corn, and Onion Quiche with Sweet Potato Crust

Summer Squash, Corn, and Onion Quiche with Sweet Potato Crust

A sweet potato crust gives this delicious, vegetable-packed, quiche recipe an original twist

Spiced Lentil and Rice Stew

Spiced Lentil and Rice Stew

Lentils, vegetables and bone broth with a special ingredient–spiced ginger tea–make for a flavorful Ayurvedic-inspired stew

A Fit Microbiome: Movements that Have a Positive Impact on Your Gut

Wellness

A Fit Microbiome: Movements that Have a Positive Impact on Your Gut

We all know movement is good for cardio and metabolic health. But did you know it can also affect your gut health?

Self Care, the Key to Improving Women’s Health

Self Care, the Key to Improving Women’s Health

Many women feel there is simply not enough time for self care. But taking a moment to focus on yourself can give you that extra boost to your health, inside and out.

Move More to Boost Digestion

Gut Health

Move More to Boost Digestion

Daily movement and exercise not only tones your muscles and improves your cardiovascular health–it can also help boost healthy digestion.

How to create change that sticks; it’s possible—just not easy

Lifestyle

How to create change that sticks; it’s possible—just not easy

Why is change so hard sometimes? Living a better, healthier, fitter, and happier life involves a little bit of planning and strategy, and lots of patience and support.

Energy Builder Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Energy Builder Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Only 5 ingredients pack this fruit smoothie with tons of nutrients and naturally sweet deliciousness.

Movement to Improve Your Sleep-Wake Cycle

Movement to Improve Your Sleep-Wake Cycle

Movement has many benefits to our health and wellness, including improving our sleep. Choose your types of exercise and times of the day wisely!

Whipped Muhammara Dip

Whipped Muhammara Dip

A lighter take on this Middle Eastern roasted red pepper and walnut dip, with balsamic vinegar instead of pomegranate molasses for sweetness.

Could Rural Living Be Better For Your Gut? How Built Environments Influence Your Health

Could Rural Living Be Better For Your Gut? How Built Environments Influence Your Health

How does urbanization affect our environmental ecosystems and the ecosystems within our bodies?

Everything is Connected: The Relationship Between Body and Planet

Science

Everything is Connected: The Relationship Between Body and Planet

How do the ecosystems and microbiomes in our body mimic the beautifully diverse ecosystems on the earth?

Does Your Child Have a Healthy Gut? Plus 5 Tips to Support Gut Health

Gut Health

Does Your Child Have a Healthy Gut? Plus 5 Tips to Support Gut Health

What should you be on the lookout for to ensure your child maintains a healthy gut microbiome and digestion?

5 Ways to Show Your Mom (or Mother Figure) You Love, Support, and Empower Her on Mother’s Day

Lifestyle

5 Ways to Show Your Mom (or Mother Figure) You Love, Support, and Empower Her on Mother’s Day

Here are a few creative ways to show you love, support, and empower the mothers in your life this Mother’s Day.

The Magic of Motherhood: From Superorganisms to Superheroes

Lifestyle

The Magic of Motherhood: From Superorganisms to Superheroes

There are many modern miracles but others are as old as time. 

How Your Oral Microbiome Impacts Your Mouth Health and Whole Body Health

Oral Health

How Your Oral Microbiome Impacts Your Mouth Health and Whole Body Health

Ginger Chicken & Asparagus Stir-Fry

Ginger Chicken & Asparagus Stir-Fry

Eat to Boost Your Immunity

Nutrition

Eat to Boost Your Immunity

How to select foods that are rich in nutrients that can give our built-in defense system the fuel it needs to help optimize immunity.

Wait! Don’t Throw Out Those Food Scraps!

Wait! Don’t Throw Out Those Food Scraps!

Turn trash into treasure by cooking with peel, stalks, grounds, old bread, and more!

Jerusalem Artichoke and Leek Soup with Parmesan

Jerusalem Artichoke and Leek Soup with Parmesan

5 Ways to Teach Your Kids Healthy Eating Habits

5 Ways to Teach Your Kids Healthy Eating Habits

The Many Microbiomes and How They Work Together for Total Health

Science

The Many Microbiomes and How They Work Together for Total Health

The various microbiomes in our body differ in their locations and functions. How do they all work together to help make your body healthy?

How to Create Your First Vegetable Garden

How to Create Your First Vegetable Garden

Imagine walking outside to pick a juicy, ripe tomato, warm off the vine.

Spring Green Salad with Avocados, Strawberries, Toasted Almonds, and Tarragon

Spring Green Salad with Avocados, Strawberries, Toasted Almonds, and Tarragon

A salad bursting with flavor and nutrients, fresh and spring-ready with greens and avocado.

Eat to Protect Your Health

Eat to Protect Your Health

So many factors we don’t have control over impact our quality of life. What do we have control over? What we EAT.

Spring Avocado Toasts with Poached Egg, Radish, and Asparagus

Spring Avocado Toasts with Poached Egg, Radish, and Asparagus

8 Tips to Prepare Your Gut for Traveling

Wellness

8 Tips to Prepare Your Gut for Traveling

Before you book your flight and pack your bags for that well-deserved travel break…is preparing your gut on your pre-travel checklist?

Why One Superfood Might Not Be So Super For You

Why One Superfood Might Not Be So Super For You

Superfoods are power-packed with nutrients that are good for your health, unless they are not personally good for you.

Spring Cleaning? Start with Your Gut!

Spring Cleaning? Start with Your Gut!

Spring is time for renewal, including your gut health. How do you Spring Clean your gut safely and effectively?

Springing Into Action: Movement to Boost Your Gut Health

Wellness

Springing Into Action: Movement to Boost Your Gut Health

How getting your body moving can make an impact on your digestion, microbe diversity and gut health.

How to Spring Forward

How to Spring Forward

Longer days are coaxing us to wake up and shake up our routines—for the better. Take a cue from this season of growth and renewal and recalibrate your body and mind. Here’s how.

The Pros (and Cons) of Ashwagandha

The Pros (and Cons) of Ashwagandha

What Does Your Gut Say?

How to Make Supplements a Habit That Sticks

Viome Guides

How to Make Supplements a Habit That Sticks

Remembering to take your supplements can be difficult. What can you do when those bottles start piling up?

FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Designation for a Viome Device for the Proposed Intended Use

FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Designation for a Viome Device for the Proposed Intended Use

FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Designation for a Viome Device for the Proposed Intended Use

Viome Oral and Throat Cancer detection test designated Breakthrough Device for accelerated Review by FDA

Viome Oral and Throat Cancer detection test designated Breakthrough Device for accelerated Review by FDA

Breakthrough test built on Viome’s Proprietary RNA Analysis Technology and State of the Art AI platform

How to Determine Your Baseline for Health

How to Determine Your Baseline for Health

Discovering Love from the Inside Out

Discovering Love from the Inside Out

These days, the act of self-love is less an afterthought, and more a ‘forgotten’ thought.

Embracing Hygge for Better Health

Embracing Hygge for Better Health

What is Hygge, and how can following this self-care concept ‌improve your health?

The Giving Season Starts with You

The Giving Season Starts with You

Scientists have shown that our ability to manage or overcome daily stress (and cope in healthy ways) relies more heavily on our health than previously thought.

What Customers are Saying About Following Their Viome Results and Recommendations

What Customers are Saying About Following Their Viome Results and Recommendations

What are Viome customers saying about following their test results and recommendations?

4 Perks of Taking Postbiotics

Gut Health

4 Perks of Taking Postbiotics

Learn what postbiotics, which postbiotics are in Viome Precision Supplements, and read our four top reasons they can be beneficial to your health.

How You Can Take Control of Your Wellness Journey

How You Can Take Control of Your Wellness Journey

Are you ready to tap into what your body is trying to say to you?

Your Samples: From Privacy to Precision

Your Samples: From Privacy to Precision

The journey of your Viome test sample

Healthspan: The Key to a Better Life

Longevity

Healthspan: The Key to a Better Life

What is the difference between lifespan and healthspan? And why does it matter?

Step by Step: Gradually Introducing Your Viome Food Recommendations into Your Daily Food Routine

Step by Step: Gradually Introducing Your Viome Food Recommendations into Your Daily Food Routine

How to easily and quickly start to put your Viome food recommendations into action!

How Much Does Viome Cost?

How Much Does Viome Cost?

Introducing You: Retesting the New and Improved

Viome Guides

Introducing You: Retesting the New and Improved

A Note to Our Customers and a Promise for the Future

A Note to Our Customers and a Promise for the Future

Worth the Wait?

Worth the Wait?

What You Can Do Now While You Wait for Your Results!

7 Tips to Help Improve Digestion Naturally and Permanently

Wellness

7 Tips to Help Improve Digestion Naturally and Permanently

What causes digestion problems and how can you improve them naturally?

Antibiotics and Gut Health: Side Effects and How to Heal

Wellness

Antibiotics and Gut Health: Side Effects and How to Heal

Food for Thought: Nutritional Psychiatry

Wellness

Food for Thought: Nutritional Psychiatry

Exercise in Just 10 Minutes with HIIT

Exercise in Just 10 Minutes with HIIT

Tips for Eating Healthy While Traveling

Tips for Eating Healthy While Traveling

Meal Prep 101: Easy Meal Prepping for Success

Meal Prep 101: Easy Meal Prepping for Success

Easy Measuring for Healthy Portion Sizes

Easy Measuring for Healthy Portion Sizes

Viome and WaaS™ (Wellness as a Service) Products are the Latest Health Industry Game Changers

Viome and WaaS™ (Wellness as a Service) Products are the Latest Health Industry Game Changers

Learn about Wellness as a Service™ (WaaS) and see how Viome is changing the entire way we look at health and wellness.

Viome Supplement & Probiotic + Prebiotic Formula Ingredients List

Viome Guides

Viome Supplement & Probiotic + Prebiotic Formula Ingredients List

Each individual formula for your Viome Precision Supplements™ & VRx My·Biotics™️ Gut Formula is selected from a list of over 200 individual ingredients.

What is oxidative stress and why is it important?

What is oxidative stress and why is it important?

And how do you reduce it?

What is Butyrate: The Key to Gut Symbiosis

What is Butyrate: The Key to Gut Symbiosis

RNA: The New Three-Letter Word Revolutionizing Healthcare

Science

RNA: The New Three-Letter Word Revolutionizing Healthcare

What is Histamine Intolerance?

What is Histamine Intolerance?

Understanding food sensitivity.

The Science Between Your Gut Health and Your Weight Loss Journey

Gut Health

The Science Between Your Gut Health and Your Weight Loss Journey

Why does one person store more fat than another with the same diet? It may have little to do with calories, but instead something inside your gut.

Our 5 Top Tips to Fight Aging Skin

Our 5 Top Tips to Fight Aging Skin

Holistic care for the skin to prevent wrinkles and signs of aging

What Makes Viome the Best Gut Microbiome Testing Company

What Makes Viome the Best Gut Microbiome Testing Company

Viome has led the field of precision nutrition for years. In this gut microbiome era, our tests continue to be the most affordable and comprehensive

Do you have microbes on your mind?

Do you have microbes on your mind?

Once COVID-19 hit, mental health around the nation took a steep nosedive. For years to come, researchers will be studying the impact of COVID-19 on mental health.

Introducing Viome’s Oral and Throat Cancer Detection Test Built on Viome’s Metatranscriptomics and AI Platform

Introducing Viome’s Oral and Throat Cancer Detection Test Built on Viome’s Metatranscriptomics and AI Platform

Breakthrough test built on Viome’s Proprietary RNA Analysis Technology and State of the Art AI platform

The Secret Life of Skin

Wellness

The Secret Life of Skin

When we look in the mirror to examine our skin, we don’t typically realize we’re actually looking at our body’s largest organ.

What are Brain Supplements and Do They Really Work?

Nutrition

What are Brain Supplements and Do They Really Work?

Gut Health and Acne: How Your Microbiome Impacts Your Skin Health

Gut Health and Acne: How Your Microbiome Impacts Your Skin Health

How Your Microbiome Impacts Skin Health

The Journey of Your Sample

The Journey of Your Sample

How are we able to make the connection between the data in your sample and what foods and supplements are right for you? We’ll show you!

Optimizing your cellular and mitochondrial health may be the key to slower aging

Longevity

Optimizing your cellular and mitochondrial health may be the key to slower aging

Viome and researchers around the world are learning more about the process of aging every day - including how to improve longevity and promote optimal health.

10 Things Viome’s Health Intelligence Test Can Tell You About Your Health

10 Things Viome’s Health Intelligence Test Can Tell You About Your Health

10 Things Viome’s Health Intelligence Test can tell you

The Perks of Precision Supplements

The Perks of Precision Supplements

You, Decoded: A Complete Guide to Viome’s Test Scores

Viome Guides

You, Decoded: A Complete Guide to Viome’s Test Scores

A quick guide to your Viome health scores and the nutritional insights they reveal

What Role Does the Gut Microbiome Play in Blood Sugar Management?

What Role Does the Gut Microbiome Play in Blood Sugar Management?

Your gut health impacts how your body processes sugar. Can improving your microbiome influence how your body manages blood sugar?

Understanding Your Glycemic Response and How It Affects Immunity

Understanding Your Glycemic Response and How It Affects Immunity

What is Prediabetes and What Steps Can You Take To Reduce the Risk?

What is Prediabetes and What Steps Can You Take To Reduce the Risk?

If you’re familiar with diabetes, you may not know that ‘pre-diabetes’ affects 1 in 3 Americans. This can lead to a type 2 diagnosis.

Why Viome’s Technology is Superior – Understanding Metatranscriptomic Analysis

Why Viome’s Technology is Superior – Understanding Metatranscriptomic Analysis

Do You Know Your Skin-Care History?  5 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Beginnings of the Beauty Industry

Do You Know Your Skin-Care History? 5 Facts You Didn’t Know About the Beginnings of the Beauty Industry

The intriguing history of the skin care and the beauty industry

Naveen Jain and Deepak Chopra on the Most Promising Facts of Your Microbiome

Naveen Jain and Deepak Chopra on the Most Promising Facts of Your Microbiome

How Ariel used Viome to naturally regain energy

How Ariel used Viome to naturally regain energy

How Ariel used Viome to naturally regain the energy she needed to survive and live her life.

Naveen Jain and Ally Perlina Talk Health Intelligence on Bulletproof Radio

Naveen Jain and Ally Perlina Talk Health Intelligence on Bulletproof Radio

Naveen Jain and Ally Perlina talk on Dave Asprey's Bulletproof Radio about new Health Intelligence.

What is Gut Dysbiosis?

Gut Health

What is Gut Dysbiosis?

What is gut dysbiosis? Learn about this condition, the symptoms, and how it can affect your physical, mental, and emotional health.

Fighting Cookie Season: Sugar and Your Gut

Fighting Cookie Season: Sugar and Your Gut

Learn how sugar affects your gut health and what you can do to fight that sweet tooth.

A History of Celiac Disease

Gut Health

A History of Celiac Disease

Gluten-free might feel like a fad. But Celiac Disease is no laughing matter for millions of people. Learn about the history and causes of this disease.

What Does it Mean When a Food is on My Minimize List?

What Does it Mean When a Food is on My Minimize List?

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Bariatric Surgery

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Bariatric Surgery

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