Jona, a personalized health technology company, announced a new distribution partnership with Emerson Ecologics where practitioners can order Jona kits, the company’s AI-powered gut microbiome profile test.

A Stool-Based Microbiome Test

The Jona kits are designed to go beyond the standard stool test covering “good” and “bad” microbes. The Jona platform features metagenomic shotgun sequencing, advanced AI to interpret the gut microbiome, and personalized diet and lifestyle recommendations to improve one’s health, the company says.

AI Diagnostic Tech for Personalized Healthcare

Leveraging the team’s deep expertise in medicine and artificial intelligence, Jona has built AI technology that ingests the medical literature on the gut microbiome and identifies the microbiome “signatures” associated with symptoms, diseases, and food sensitivities, the company says. The model then takes in an individuals’ metagenomic shotgun sequencing results and matches it to these signatures. Using digital twin technology, Jona recommends the dietary and lifestyle changes that will improve individual disease and symptom associations. The results are delivered to the individual and practitioner in a single comprehensive report.

“The gut microbiome is extremely complex and the science is evolving too rapidly for any one person to keep up with. We’ve developed this technology to put the latest microbiome science at providers’ fingertips,” says Leo Grady, PhD, Jona’s founder and CEO. “Partnering with Emerson Ecologics, the leading platform for integrative healthcare, helps more care teams access, understand and take action on this crucial information.”

Guiding Microbiome Health

Practitioners can order Jona kits directly and provide them to their clients, and both parties will receive a copy of the results.

“Emerson Ecologics has earned the loyalty of practitioners across the whole person medicine ecosystem, allowing us to impact a broad patient network. We are thrilled to add Jona to Emerson Ecologics’ portfolio and expand access to the latest in microbiome science, what many consider the next frontier in human health. We see this as the first step to a deeper partnership in the future,” says Jeff Gladd, MD, chief medical officer at Fullscript.

Jona test kits are now available via the Emerson Ecologics platform.