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A healthy gut is the foundation for feeling your best, at any age. Give your family the tools to support gut health from the inside out.
With Alba, your family gets:
Science-backed gut health tests
Personalised reports & nutrition plans
Online consultations with a Certified Nutrition Coach
In-app gut advisor & progress tracking
Discount on follow-up tests
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Real family story
Same genetics – different gut health
This family tested both twins and uncovered completely different imbalances – despite identical genes. With those insights, they could take a targeted approach for each child. Because no two microbiomes are the same, even in the same family.
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What you get with Alba
Your Alba journey includes everything you need to understand and support your family’s gut health – from easy at-home sampling to a detailed microbiome report, personalized guidance, and expert support in the app.
What you get
Included in your Alba test
At-home gut health test kit (easy stool sample collection)
Personalised microbiome report with clear insights
Tailored nutrition & lifestyle plan with practical actions
Tailored probiotic recommendations (if needed)
30 min online consultation with a Certified Nutritionist
In-app gut advisor – chat based support based on your health data
Discount on follow-up tests to track progress
Price
How it works
A full support journey for your family's gut health
1. Take your gut health test
Collect and send a small stool sample from home and answer a few questions in our app. We analyze your sample in our certified lab (2–3 weeks).
2. Get your results & action plan
See a detailed picture of your gut health, with clear nutrition guidance and practical steps tailored to their needs.
3. Book your 1:1 coaching session
Talk through the results, next steps, and all your questions with a certified Nutrition & Health Coach.
4.Retest & track progress
Follow how your gut health evolves. Retest to see what improved, maintain healthy progress, and understand where to focus next.
Expert coaches to guide you
With Alba, you get a 30 min personal consultation with one of our Nutrition & Health Coaches.
Together, you’ll walk through your results, ask questions about food, supplements, symptoms, or routines, and get practical advice tailored to your family.
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The insight I gained into my children’s gut health has been invaluable. It brought clarity to things that were hard to understand and that our healthcare centre couldn’t really help with, and it inspired us to make changes that actually feel simple and doable. Worth every single penny!
Patrizia
Verified customer
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At five months old, my daughter developed dermatitis on her face and neck, with eczema patches across her body. Nothing seemed to help. Alba’s stool test confirmed she was missing a specific strain of gut bacteria. With a targeted probiotic and gentle dietary changes, her skin completely cleared. No more rashes, no more eczema.
Ines
Verified customer
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Alba Health has truly helped us understand what our child needs to feel good from the inside out. We ordered a kit because our 4-year-old daughter was having stomach issues. After receiving the results and adjusting her diet, she no longer has any stomach pain!
Anna-Katarina
Verified customer
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I ordered the test for my daughter, who’s almost seven, as a preventive measure. Everything went smoothly — the report was clear and easy to access, and the consultation with the nutritionist was incredibly valuable. I really hope more parents do this and find the motivation to make changes that give their children the healthy start they need on their food journey.
Elira
Verified customer
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Detailed questions and a super interesting report that helped us plan our meals better to support our son’s gut health. The consultation made us feel calm, confident, and motivated to make the changes we needed. She was incredibly knowledgeable and gave such thoughtful advice. Thank you!
Caroline
Verified customer
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Great and personal advice on different steps to take to improve my child's health, explained in a simple and practical way. The personal consultation was also extremely helpful, not only in interpreting the results of the tests, but also with practical guidance on how to think about my child's diet and supplements. I give Alba Health my strongest recommendation.
Petra
Verified customer
FAQ
For children, the answer depends partly on age. child’s gut microbiome is constantly developing from birth through childhood, so following how it changes over time often provides even more insight than looking at a single snapshot.
From one microbiome test, you can learn about your child’s:
- Share of friendly bacteria that support healthy growth and development
- Share of unfriendly bacteria, which in higher amounts may increase infection risk or crowd out beneficial microbes
- Overall microbiome development, since the pace of maturation is closely linked to healthy growth
- Levels of bacteria that support the immune system
- Presence of bacteria that produce important metabolites, such as butyrate
- Capacity to maintain a healthy gut barrier
- Ability to metabolize vitamins, proteins, and fats
- Associations with outcomes later in life, such as crying, fussing, or BMI
Most importantly, your results come with personalized, evidence-based recommendations – covering diet, personal care products, environmental factors, and supplements (when needed). These are reviewed by our medical team and discussed with you in a 1:1 consultation with a certified Nutrition & Health Coach, so you feel fully supported in taking the next steps.
The Alba test is designed to be simple and stress-free. You collect a small stool sample, either directly from your baby’s diaper or for older kids/adults using the stool catcher included in the kit. The collection itself takes just a couple of minutes.
Everything you need is provided, along with clear step-by-step instructions. Once the sample is collected, place it in the prepaid return envelope and send it back to us. We’ll handle the rest and keep you updated along the way.
In early life, the gut microbiome develops rapidly – changing as your child grows, starts new foods, gets sick, recovers, and explores the world. Because of this natural evolution, testing every 3–6 months provides the most useful picture of how your child’s gut health is developing over time.
Most families choose to retest regularly, and there’s real value in doing so. Each new test helps you:
- Track your family’s microbiome development and see whether it’s maturing/developing as expected
- Understand how diet, antibiotics, or lifestyle changes have affected your gut
- See whether previous recommendations are working, and adjust them if needed
- Get updated guidance as your or your child’s needs change with age
- Spot potential issues early before they become bigger challenges
With your test, you also receive a 1:1 consultation with a certified Nutrition & Health Coach, who helps you interpret the results, understand the progress, and decide on the best next steps for you.
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From a stool sample, we collect the DNA of all gut microbes. By looking at their DNA, we can see which bacteria are present and what they are doing in your child’s gut. We analyze bacterial DNA only – we do not analyze your or your child’s own DNA.
Your microbiome report gives you a clear, in-depth picture of your or your child's gut health – and, most importantly, practical guidance you can use right away.
With deep shotgun metagenomic sequencing, we analyse over 30,000 bacterial species and strains to show not just which microbes are present, but what they do for digestion, immunity, brain health, and overall wellbeing.
Your report includes:
- Gut health overview – how your or your child’s microbiome compares to a healthy reference
- Key functions explained – what the bacteria mean for digestion, immunity, brain health, and everyday wellbeing
- Deep-dive insights – detailed explanations of each finding, with tailored actions
- Personalized recommendations – nutrition and lifestyle guidance created with our scientific and coaching teams
- Probiotic guidance (if needed) – recommendations on specific probiotics tailored to your or your child’s microbiome
Everything is presented clearly in the Alba app, designed to make complex science easy to understand – and easy to act on.
Want to learn more? You can download a full example report here.
You’ll receive your results within 3-4 weeks from the time you send in your child’s sample. When they’re ready, everything will be available directly in the Alba app, along with your personalized recommendations.
No – Alba Health does not provide medical diagnoses. Instead, we give you detailed insights into your/your child’s gut microbiome and a personalized action plan with practical strategies to support and strengthen the gut health. If anything in the results indicates that further evaluation may be helpful, we’ll let you know.
Yes! Many children are selective eaters, and our recommendations are designed with that in mind. We tailor all guidance to your family’s reality – offering practical, flexible tips that fit your child’s preferences and routines.
Our certified Nutrition & Health Coaches can also support you in navigating picky eating, helping you introduce small, realistic changes that still have a meaningful impact on your child’s gut health.
Alba Health is built on world-leading research in children’s gut health. We run Sweden’s largest study in this field together with Uppsala University, and our foundation is over 25 years of research led by Prof. Willem de Vos (Alba's co-founder) – a globally recognized scientist with more than 800 publications. We also collaborate with major international studies, including the HELMi cohort at the University of Helsinki, one of the world’s largest infant gut microbiome studies.
Our multidisciplinary team in medicine, nutrition, and research has collectively published over 1,600 scientific articles, ensuring that every recommendation is grounded in strong scientific evidence.
Alba uses research-grade gut microbiome testing (deep shotgun metagenomics) performed in a certified laboratory, giving you highly accurate and actionable insights you can trust.
Your data is stored securely within the European Union in full compliance with GDPR. Your name and address are kept separate from your sample data, so it cannot be linked back to you. We do not transfer your sample data outside the EU, and all information is handled with strict security protocols.
You can read more in our Privacy Policy.