Any experience of Zoe or Supplylife?

[Herewegoagain84]

Not sure if the right place to post, but considering investing in one of the diet/health programmes where they tell you your intolerances etc - and hopefully help you in other ways. Of course the market is becoming flooded and wondering whether they’re just a waste of money - or whether anyone can offer personal experience? Zoe and Supplylife are the ones advertised to me most frequently… thanks!

I did Zoe at the beginning of the year. I found the testing the most interesting part. I was lucky in that my 'scores' were pretty good and the foods it suggested I ate are ones I normally eat: tomatoes, chicken, avocados etc. There used to be coaches who would give you more personalised advice but I believe that's not the case anymore. The Facebook groups seemed a bit annoying. It's not a weight loss system which some ripple seem to think as people seemed to be stuffing their faces with nuts and other highly calorific foods which although unprocessed are still calorific.
Personally I wouldn't recommend it but as I said my diet is fairly healthy already.

@follygirl thanks for the feedback! I suspect a couple of intolerances I would be curious to check - but not sure it replaces actual “testing”.

Zoe doesn't test for food intolerences it tests your blood sugar response to food, fat response and gut microbiome. For the cost I would just get a cgm to test blood sugar and follow tge dietary advice on their podcasts e g 30+ plants a week, eat the rainbow, eat fermented food etc.

Thank you for this !

I’ve not tried it but this podcast might be worth a listen before investing https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/jul/09/zoe-and-personalised-nutrition-does-the-evidence-on-glucose-tracking-add-up-podcast

This

The continuous blood sugar monitoring was brilliant for me. The rest was just repeating info they had already published elsewhere so not justifying the cost.

As for the Zoe 30 supplement they are now selling in Waitrose. Words fail me