Working with Microbiome Center
Because the human microbiome is as person-specific as a fingerprint, it requires a personalized approach. Microbiome Center supports doctors and healthcare professionals in applying such a personal approach.
By bringing together microbiome analysis, scientific insights and practical experience in one digital treatment platform, it becomes easier to use microbiome therapy responsibly and practically within daily practice.
Below you can read more about the principles and working methods of Microbiome Center.
Our approach
Personalized microbiome therapy
At Microbiome Center, we believe that no two microbiomes are the same. That is why we do not work with standard probiotic products, but with treatments that are fully tailored to the personal situation of the client.
Based on the intake, medical background and microbiome analysis, the practitioner prescribes a personal treatment prescription. This prescription is checked and prepared by an affiliated pharmacist and then sent to the client's home address.
Our practitioners can use algorithms that take into account:
- microbiome data,
- medical history,
- scientific literature,
- and practical experience within the treatment network.
Due to the cooperation between practitioner and pharmacist, this approach has the status of magistral preparation under the Medicines Act.
High-quality active components
Because the treatment takes place within a medical context, practitioners and pharmacists can use a wider range of high-quality components than is possible within regular supplements under the Commodities Act.
This creates more room for a treatment that really matches the personal microbiome and the medical situation of the client.
Diagnostics as a basis
The treatment network works with microbiome analyses that support practitioners in gaining additional insights into the gut microbiome of clients.
A microbiome analysis can provide valuable information about possible disturbances, patterns and points of attention within the microbiome. The analysis is one of the sources of information within the total clinical decision-making process.
The interpretation always takes place in conjunction with the complaints, medical history and professional assessment of the practitioner.
Science & data
Knowledge development
Within the network, practical experiences, scientific insights and anonymized treatment data are used to further improve treatment strategies.
Contributing to future research
The treatment network and the data collected offer opportunities to contribute, with consent and anonymized data, to future research into the microbiome.
This makes the treatment network a valuable addition to classic RCT studies, because practical experience and individual treatment data can be combined with scientific insights. The knowledge that emerges from this is translated into new insights within the treatment platform. In this way, affiliated practitioners always have up-to-date knowledge, without having to constantly monitor all developments themselves.
Safe handling of data
Within Microbiome Center, data is processed carefully and securely.
The infrastructure is set up so that the parties involved - such as client, practitioner, laboratory and pharmacist - retain control over their own data. Security, transparency and availability of data are central to this.
Invitation to doctors and healthcare professionals
With our network for personal medicine, we are open to setting up living labs with all kinds of autoimmune chronic complaints that are linked to gastrointestinal problems.
Agenda
Knowledge & meetings
Microbiome Center regularly organizes intervisions, webinars and knowledge meetings for doctors and professionals. The sessions are aimed at both healthcare providers who are orienting themselves on microbiome therapy and experienced practitioners who want to deepen their knowledge.