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Storing your own microbiota for future recovery

Autologous microbiota transfer (aMTT) is a form of health insurance: you can store your own gut bacteria — healthy today — in AutoBiome capsules, so that after a future event causing dysbiosis you can get back what was always yours. The capsules can be kept at home, in a fridge or a freezer.

Autologous microbiota transfer (aMTT) — a new kind of health insurance

Dysbiosis — a pathological imbalance of the gut flora — can develop in anyone, even in someone who is completely healthy today. A course of antibiotics, an operation or even a longer journey can upset the delicate balance the gut microbiota has built over years. If you know that a medical condition, treatment or event that may cause dysbiosis lies ahead of you, you can store your own, naturally compatible gut bacteria now, while you are healthy, for future recovery.

A sample taken carefully and at the right time can be returned to your body after an unexpected or an already foreseeable event — as if you were resuming life from a saved game, with your own proven microbiota. The service that produces the necessary capsules is AutoBiome.

Who is it for?

Storing your own microbiota is recommended if you do not suffer from a chronic illness and are in microbiologically suitable health. Below we summarise the situations in which it is worth considering, and those in which we do not recommend storage.

Recommended

  • Before a long, possibly alternating course of antibiotics
  • Before chemotherapy or radiotherapy, if the underlying disease does not affect the digestive system
  • Before surgery, to prevent the side effects of prophylactic antibiotics
  • For lasting weight maintenance, in cases of chronic obesity
  • Before travel planned to “exotic” countries
  • In high-risk professions or activities (soldier, police officer, firefighter)
  • For athletes, to support peak-form timing

Not recommended

  • If a course of antibiotics is ongoing or took place in the past 6 months
  • In the case of a malignant disease affecting the digestive system
  • For day surgery without prophylactic antibiotics
  • For travel within Europe, if you drink bottled water only
How the process works

Storing your own microbiota — step by step

We provide continuous support; at every stage of the treatment you will know what comes next.

Medical examination

A basic laboratory and imaging package, arranged by your GP, rules out chronic, infectious or malignant diseases before sampling.

Registration

Choose “AutoBiome” from the “Programmes” menu. You will then receive a unique identifier in the format P0000000.

Order

Place your order using your identifier. After payment we send the sampling kit within 5 working days. The sample must be taken once and delivered to the Budapest laboratory within 6 hours.

Transport and processing

We extract the microbiome from the sample using our own procedure, freeze-dry it and encapsulate it to pharmaceutical quality. Boxes of 60 are sent by courier — at home they keep for months in a fridge and for decades in a freezer.

The solution

AutoBiome — your own microbiota, safely stored

Capsules processed in a certified laboratory, made exclusively for your own use.

Own storage

AutoBiome

6×60 capsules · 595 €
  • Complete human microbiota suspension from a healthy individual — from yourself — in freeze-dried form
  • For the future restoration of your own microbiota
  • Natural bacterial density
  • Minimum 6×60 capsules
  • Exclusively on your own request and for your own use
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What to keep in mind before sampling

For reliable quality, we ask that you:

  • Be free of antibiotics and probiotics for at least 6 months before sampling
  • Consume only animal protein free of additives and dewormers, and avoid artificial sweeteners
  • Include foods with live cultures in your diet
  • Drink at least 2 litres of fluid a day in the 7 days before sampling
  • Deliver the sample to the laboratory within 6 hours — we receive samples on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Insure your microbiota today

Write to us and we will start the process of storing your own microbiota — from registration to home delivery of the capsules.

MicroBiome Bank does not sell products; it connects donors and recipients by providing professional medical services. In the case of storing your own microbiota, MicroBiome Bank does not verify the identity given by the client; the service qualifies as a medical service and may be used under the direction of a treating physician. Responsibility for any mix-up of the sample or the raw material, and for the accuracy of identification, rests with the client. For detailed information, please contact us.