At-home stress and health diagnostics

• Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR): the morning ramp-up
  • Waking cortisol (0 min): baseline on opening your eyes
  • Morning cortisol (+30 min): peak of the awakening surge
• Diurnal cortisol slope: how cortisol falls through the day
• Pre-bed cortisol: how well you wind down at night
• Optional add-on: DHEA-S, testosterone, progesterone in saliva

• See how sharply your body ramps up energy each morning
• Read how well you wind cortisol down before bed
• Spot the flat cortisol curves that signal chronic strain
• Compare your daily rhythm against peers in your age band

• 3 samples per day (waking, +30 min, ~10 pm) across 2 workdays
• Passive saliva into a Salivette tube: no needles, no fasting
• Freeze tubes overnight, then mail in the prepaid envelope
• No coffee, food or brushing teeth in the 30 min before a sample

• Method: LC-MS/MS mass spectrometry, the reference standard for cortisol
• Landmark studies: Chida & Steptoe (2009) linked the CAR to chronic stress. Adam et al. (2017) linked flat slopes to worse health
• Lab: Dresden LabService, led by Prof. Clemens Kirschbaum, the reference cortisol lab worldwide

• Long-Term Stress Load
  • Cortisol: cumulative stress load, 3 months
  • Cortisone: inactive cortisol, reveals turnover
  • Cortisol / Cortisone ratio
• Long-Term Resilience Capacity
  • DHEA: the stress-buffering hormone (+ DHEA / Cortisol ratio)
  • Testosterone: vitality, suppressed by chronic stress
  • Progesterone: the calming hormone, low levels raise reactivity
• Endocannabinoid System
  • AEA: mood modulator
  • 1/2AG: immune modulator
  • PEA: neuroprotective modulator

• See the stress your body has absorbed over the last 3 months
• Tell acute strain apart from long-term hormonal depletion
• Read the balance between your stress and recovery hormones
• One sample covers 3 months, ideal for tracking change

• Cut a 3 cm strand, pencil-lead thick, near the scalp at the back
• No blood, no fasting, no timing rules: a one-minute sample
• Sealed in a paper envelope and mailed to the lab
• Bald or shaved head? A body-hair alternative works, ask us

• Method: LC-MS/MS quantifies 5 steroids and 3 endocannabinoids in one sample
• Landmark studies: Gao et al. (2013) established multi-steroid hair analysis. Stalder & Kirschbaum (2012) validated hair cortisol for chronic stress
• Lab: Dresden LabService, 20+ years under Prof. Kirschbaum, the world reference lab

• Blood Glucose Score
  • Average glucose (with estimated HbA1c)
  • Glucose variability (coefficient of variation, %)
  • Fasting glucose
  • Bedtime glucose
• Glucose Spikes (rises >30 mg/dL, lasting >60 min)
  • Average spike count per day
  • Average spike height (mg/dL)
  • Average spike duration (h:min)
• Time-in-range across the day

• See which meals and workouts spike your blood sugar
• Cut the mid-morning crashes and afternoon energy dips
• 10 days is enough to trial 2 or 3 food experiments
• Catch metabolic drift years before a blood test would

• Discreet skin patch worn on the upper arm for 10 days
• No finger-pricks: the sensor sits just under the skin
• Data streams to your phone every 5 minutes, no interruption
• Log 2 or 3 short food or timing experiments while you wear it

• Method: continuous glucose sensing every 5 min, ~2,880 data points across 10 days
• Landmark studies: Battelino et al. (2019) set the global standard for time-in-range. Hall et al. (2018) showed spikes predict future disease
• Device: Dexcom G7, FDA-cleared medical-grade sensor. We re-analyze the raw signal

We test a wide range of blood markers validated for Tasso collection, including these kits:

• Standard Kit: 10 core markers covering lipids, inflammation, thyroid and the four fatigue-driving micronutrients
• Female Health Kit (Fertility, Menopause, Thyroid): ~9 markers including FSH, LH, Estradiol, Progesterone, DHEA-S, Prolactin, TSH, fT3, fT4, TPO-Ak
• Fitness & Metabolism Kit: ~8 markers including Fasting Glucose, HbA1c, Insulin, HOMA-IR, Testosterone, Cortisol, ApoB, hs-CRP
• Nutrient Kit: ~13 markers including Copper, Zinc, Selenium, Magnesium, Iron, Ferritin, Vitamin D, B12, Folate, Vitamin A, Vitamin E

Fitness, Metabolism and Nutrient kits are currently Germany-only (extra tube required)

• Blood Lipids
  • Total Cholesterol
  • LDL
  • HDL
  • Triglycerides
• Micronutrients
  • Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)
  • Vitamin D total
  • Vitamin B9 (Folate)
  • Ferritin
• Inflammation
  • hs-CRP (high-sensitive C-reactive protein)
• Thyroid
  • TSH

• Catch the silent drivers of fatigue: iron, B12, D, thyroid
• Read your cardiovascular baseline: lipids plus hs-CRP
• Adjust nutrition to what your body actually needs
• Pick the panel that matches your question

• Place the Tasso+ device on your upper arm and press the button to fill one small tube
• Virtually painless: no finger-prick, no vein puncture, no phlebotomist
• ~10 minutes at home, then mail the sample the same day
• Results reviewed by our physicians within 5 working days

• Method: standard clinical assays, the same ones your GP's lab uses
• Landmark study: Wickremsinhe et al. (2023) showed Tasso+ arm samples match a standard venous draw for 10 routine blood markers (concordance above 0.95)
• Lab: German MVZ laboratory in Düsseldorf, DIN EN ISO 15189-accredited

• The 4 main gut phyla: Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria
• 1,000+ bacterial species (over 99% of known gut bacteria)
• Bacterial diversity index (Shannon)
• Enterotype classification (B-type vs. P-type)
• Key species: F. prausnitzii, Akkermansia, Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus
• Functional readouts: fibre fermentation, SCFAs, vitamin synthesis, immune, inflammation

• See which food families your microbiome ferments well
• Get a personalized fibre and prebiotic list
• Know whether a probiotic helps, and which strains to pick
• Track shifts every 3 to 6 months as your diet changes

• Tiny stool sample at home, only a rice-grain amount needed
• No fasting: the picture must reflect your real gut
• Sealed sample mailed to the lab in a prepaid envelope
• Results returned within 2 to 4 weeks

• Method: 16S rRNA next-generation sequencing, the reference microbiome method
• Landmark study: Falony et al. (2016) mapped the healthy gut baseline in Science
• Lab: BIOMES Labs (Berlin), Europe's largest microbiome database, 51,000+ profiles