AMILI & NUHS Launch First-of-its-Kind and Free Gut Health Predictor

Measuring Asians’ Gut Health for a Better Tomorrow

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 25 June 2021 – AMILI (the “Company”), Southeast Asia’s first microbiome bank
and largest microbiome reference library, partners National University Health
System (“NUHS“) to launch the Gut Health Predictor (the “Predictor” or
“GHP”) on World Microbiome Day 2021.

The Gut Health Predictor is the first of its
kind self-assessment in Southeast Asia. It provides individuals
quick and easy insights into their own gut health, and aims to raise awareness
of the importance of the gut microbiome in overall health.

“There is no health without gut health. Gut
health has been implicated in many conditions such as dementia, obesity,
autism, and diabetes,” shares Associate Professor Jeremy Lim, Co-Founder and
CEO, AMILI. “It is therefore important for us to engage the public on the
impact that diet and lifestyle have on gut health. As Southeast Asia’s first
precision gut microbiome company, we have been collaborating with leading
academic institutions such as NUHS to conduct research on gut health, build
knowledge, and understand the Asian gut microbiome. Through these collaborative
efforts, we may be able to identify new treatment therapies to address
conditions through gut health in the future.”

Through a series of under
30 simple questions about their lifestyle and diet on
GHP, users can get a good indication of the status of their gut health, and how
it could be affecting the rest of their body
and mind.

“Emerging research is shedding light on remarkable links
between our gut microbiome and a myriad of health conditions, both physical and
mental. Our gut health is influenced by many factors, from what we eat and
drink to how much we exercise, and the impact is huge. Thus far, most research
has been centred on western societies and diets,” says Dr Kristie Fan,
Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital. “NUHS is working with
AMILI in this exciting field to promote gut health in Singapore and beyond.
Together, we seek to discover the truth to ‘you are what you eat’.”

Developed by AMILI and corroborated by
gastroenterologists from NUHS,
GHP may potentially help clinicians find correlations between diets and
lifestyles, and gut health. Through a map of data, these population-level
analyses may offer insights that could align future therapy and intervention.

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