The Meterbolic Mission

Meterbolic’s mission is to provide real-time, personalized, point-of-care metabolic diagnostics that enable quantified metabolic health for all.

Along with measurements, we are building a more extensive metabolic analytics and visualization service for analyzing and interpreting data.

Following the generation of larger and larger scale data, it will be possible to find patterns in lifestyle factors and determine how they correlate with the improvement or deterioration of metabolic health.

Current clinical practice fails to diagnose people at early stages of metabolic disease. This is partly due to the single fasting measures typically used, and partly the result of trying to save on measurement costs where it makes little sense to do so. It is not only the Fasting Insulin that remains a rare health measurement, so too is combined post-load Glucose & Insulin measurements. (We call these Postprandial or PP for short).

At Meterbolic we strive to make more useful measurements available to clinical Point-of-Care and also in at-home settings. We strongly believe that PP data points are more useful in the early diagnosis of metabolic deterioration. Beyond glucose and insulin, following lipid metabolism in the PP phase can provide additional insights.

Even though the precise indices that provide optimal insight/cost ratios are still under development, it has been clear from day one that there are low-hanging fruit, easily be harvested by simply applying available information from recent research.

Pushing the boundaries of metabolic research….and making it matter

Another research area that could potentially yield valuable outcomes is the re-analysis of basic metabolic research. Clinical practice can be decades behind research findings, since there is a general lack of theoreticians studying the molecular biology of metabolism, pulling together recently obtained knowledge on the interaction between food, the microbiota, and host physiology—including the immune system. Our priority is to provide support for such ambitious scientists by bringing them together, providing them data, and hopefully, even helping fund their efforts in the longer term.

After the above goals are realized, the output is expected to draw attention to unexplored or underexplored areas of research that could also be funded by Meterbolic and the foundation and networks behind the project.

If you would like to be part of this mission and not only benefit from the services the project offers—and plans to offer—but to also support the efforts and bring these solutions to suffering masses in developing countries, please subscribe to become an early adopter. Together we can make our vision come true.