TROO RAPID RESULTS GUT TEST KIT

Quick - Accurate - Cost Effective

UNCOVER YOUR GUT HEALTH IN 7 DAYS

Tell me about Gut Health Testing...

Sometimes you just don't feel great. Sometimes physically, sometimes mentally and sometimes both. This could be after a bout of illness; taking antibiotics, toothache or maybe a period of stress at home or work. You could have an imbalance in your gut (gut dysbiosis), but how do you know?

Or maybe you've heard about how your gut health is linked to both your physical and mental health and wellbeing and you're keen to understand what this could mean for you?

This is when our Troo Rapid Results Gut Health Test might be relevant.

We have teamed up with Scientists at a UK-based laboratory and screening company to provide a functional gut health test which measures the actual performance of your gut in terms of the Short Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs) produced; essentially showing just how effective your gut is working.

You simply take the sample in the privacy of your own bathroom, fill in the questionnaire and sent it back to NeoVos. The Lab gets straight to work as soon as they get your sample; your overall gut score is calculated, based on the individual concentrations of three SCFAs (acetate, propionate and butyrate). Depending on the concentration detected, a high, borderline or low score is assigned to each of your individual SCFA levels as well.

From this and the questionnaire a personalised set of diet and lifestyle recommendations is created to help you optimise your gut function.

Best of all this happens within a week - so you could very soon be at the start of your journey to get your gut health back in balance and reaping the inevitable rewards of feeling great.

Listen to Helenor, Troo's Co-Founder telling us about her experience with the Troo Rapid Results Gut Test Kit.

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FAQ'S

WHAT WILL I NEED TO DO?

Order Your Test Kit or Gut Health Programme

If you order before midday Monday - Thursday you'll receive it the next day. Postage & packing is FREE.

Take Your Test & Post

OK so this is not the most pleasurable experience, but we're trying to make it as simple, clean, straightforward and discrete as possible. It's worth the effort.

Then just pop the sample and the questionnaire back in the pre-addressed inner box, seal the ends and pop it in any Royal Mail post box. We'll tell you when the lab receives it.

Get Your Test Report in less than 7 Days

You'll get an email with a pdf of your easy to read and action personalised Gut Health Report. This will contain your results as well as tailored diet and lifestyle advice.

Get Stuck Into A Gut Healthy Lifestyle

Follow the diet and lifestyle advice to get your gut into top gear and to start feeling the benefits!

We'll send you tips on exercise, sleep and stress management as well as diet. We're also just at the end of an email or WhatsApp if you have a question or need support.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Why should I take a gut health test?

When it comes to your body, your gut is at the epicentre of the action. So, it's no surprise really, when something isn't quite right in your gut, it can affect many aspects of your physical and mental health.

The Troo Rapid Results Gut Health Test Kit is a functional gut health test – this analyses how well your gut is functioning. It does this by analysing key gut health biomarkers - the levels of Short-Chain Fatty Acids that your good gut bacteria are producing.

We look at the levels of 3 of the key SCFAs, Acetate, Propionate and Butyrate, scoring your levels of each of them individually and in combination to get your overall gut score. Your gut score is a snapshot in time of how your successful your gut bacteria are at producing the key SCFAs based on your diet as well as genetics, sex, age and lifestyle.

Within a week you will understand how well your gut is functioning and what actions you need to take across your diet and lifestyle to make improvements.

What’s the difference between this test and the other tests that are more expensive and take longer? Surely they are better?

Most other gut tests currently available look at the composition of the bacteria in your gut i.e. how many butyrate producing bacteria do you have compared to other bacteria. Composition gut testing is usually carried out by Next Generation Sequencing, which is time consuming and costly for the equipment and consumables.

The Troo Rapid Results Gut Test on the other hand is a functional gut test i.e. it measures how much butyrate is actually produced by your gut bacteria. The bacteria in the gut produce many vital vitamins, hormones, neurochemicals and metabolites, which keep you healthy. The most abundant products of gut bacteria are metabolites called Short-Chain fatty Acids making them an ideal overall indicator for how well your gut is functioning.

These metabolites are analysed by Gas Chromatography - the gold standard in analytical chemistry which naturally brings analysis efficiencies and costs savings but the data produced is just as powerful if not more so.

How do we know that gut bacteria and the SCFAs affect our health?

Over the past 10 years gut health and the microbiome has been rigorously studied at Universities across the globe, In fact over 20,000 scientific articles have been published covering the gut microbiome and how it impacts both of physical and mental health and well being. It’s also not stopping, new discoveries are being made every day. Our UK based scientists keep on top of this research to ensure we know what is going on and how we can learn from it.

Short-Chain Fatty Acids; acetate, propionate and butyrate play vital roles in the body. Acetate is the most abundant SCFA and should make up more than half of the total SCFAs detected. Acetate regulates gut pH, protects against pathogens, boosts the immune system, controls insulin sensitivity to combat type 2 diabetes and nourishes butyrate-producing bacteria. Propionate has wide-reaching effects including controlling weight loss and appetite and is anti-inflammatory which relieves and prevents irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s disease Butyrate has several functions. These include providing up to 70% of the energy needed for the cells in the colon; helping prevent leaky gut; and helping the colon with repair, which prevents illnesses such as ulcerative colitis. Butyrate also maintains the gut-brain axis and supports mental health. For example, butyrate increases the synthesis of the “happy hormone” serotonin, which diminishes anxiety and improves mood.

What preparation do I need to make for the test?

Remember, any gut test is a snapshot in time. Your gut health can be very quickly effected by a big night out; a bout of illness of even over exertion at the gym.

So to make your test results as representative as possible we’d recommend you take the stool sample on a very average day that reflects your usual lifestyle. We’d advise only collecting a stool sample when you don’t have any tummy problems (i.e. severe diarrhoea or constipation).

Also if you’re on a course of medication or have been taking antibiotics or have undergone surgery, wait at least 3 months before taking the Troo Rapid Results Gut Health Test. If you take medication as part of your every day symptom management then this is fine as this represents your ‘usual’ situation.

What happens if my sample gets stuck in the post for a few days, or if I forget to post it? Will it go off?

Don’t worry about any of this – your sample is in a special liquid that keeps it safe and stable for quite a while.

How long do the kits last for?

Kits have a 6 month expiry date. Please ensure you use the test kit within a few weeks of receiving it.

Why is Troo partnering with NeoVos for this test?

We’ve looked around the world to provide our customers with a test that is:

Quick – who wants to wait weeks and weeks to know if your gut is working well? You also want to see the results of any diet and lifestyle changes you make, so speed is important. We’re really pleased to have the quickest test results available, up to 7 weeks quicker than the market leader.

Cost Effective – At £80 per test (including all P&P) or an annual testing programme (4 tests per year) for £240 – this is more than half the price of the market leader.

Accurate – the process used for analysis is Gas Chromatography - the gold standard in analytical chemistry. Actionable – we don’t want you to have to trawl through a technical 93 page report to try to understand your issues. We like to keep it simple and actionable, so you know what you need to do to improve and reap the benefits of good gut health. You can see a sample of our report in the product page.

We also ideally wanted a testing partner that was based in the UK and who were as passionate about Gut health as we are, NeoVos ticked the boxes in all of these areas. They are also lovely people, something that is really important to us at Troo.

NeoVos provide cutting-edge laboratory analysis to identify your current health and give well-researched advice so that you can do something about it. They do this by reviewing hundreds of technical papers and further developing them in their laboratories until they are confident that the analysis is sound, and the advice given advice will make a difference. The gut test has been developed by their very own scientists to combat the growing issue of gut health. NeoVos, set out to design a powerful and personalised tool, that is quick and affordable giving a snapshot of your gut health today. Like us at Troo, they aim to help spread gut health awareness; prevent many illnesses as well as alleviating those currently suffering from gut related issues.

Is my data safe?

Of course! Your medical and personal data are safe through out the process, from ordering your kit from us at Troo to receiving results online from Neovos. You can read the Troo Privacy Policy and the Neovos Privacy policy. In addition: User Data are securely stored on certified servers located within the UK Full UK GDPR compliance registered with Information Commissioner’s Office.

GET FULLY PREPARED!

With these fantastic programmes we're making it easy to optimise your gut health for even less! Why not try one so you can get cracking on improving your gut health straight away?

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*Each portion of Troo provides at least 8g of fibre, more than 25% of the 30g of daily fibre consumption recommended by the NHS and the World Health Organisation. The suggested 2 portions of Troo per day is a delicious, quick and easy way to get you 50% of the way there. Over 90% of people in the UK consume just 18g of fibre per day on average.

Eating fibre is essential for your gut health. Fibre (especially prebiotic fibre that you find in Troo) has been scientifically proven to feed and nourish your good gut bacteria. This results in the production of short chain fatty acids which help reduce inflammation and can reduce the likelihood of lots of killer diseases like cancer, strokes and mental illness.

Inulin syrup also contributes to normal bowel function by increasing stool frequency (12g inulin per day); a natural solution to keep you going!

Read More about this in our Troo Guide to Gut Health.

TROO GUIDE TO GUT HEALTH