ZOE: My Review - PART 1 - Likes & Dislikes

[@charlottestevens4388]

Thanks for the review, looking forward to the next part. Really hope it launches in the UK soon!

[@HealthHackers]

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment, Charlotte! I'm looking forward to finding out what happens next.

[@zeezsleep415]

I love this episode. I think it is great that Zoe delivers practical tools to the individual which we can use to help our own health. You do it so well, Gemma. It is fun and intelligent. And for those who are wishing that this was available in their country - we can all do quite a lot of this already - we can get the continuous glucose monitor and the poop analysis of gut bacteria, and we can eat a wide variety of vegetables and see what happens, all quite cheaaply. The extra that this gives is the analysis, including the fat analysis, the app, and the our participation in ongoing study.

[@HealthHackers]

Thank you for watching, and for saying complimentary things about the format! 😊 You are of course right, there’s much we can do for better gut health and balanced blood sugar levels everyday. I’m looking forward to making Part 2!

[@wegendegy]

How can I get a continuous glucose monitor? All the info I can find indicates it is only available to diabetics.

[@cassieoz1702]

I had no end of trouble with the Freestyle Libre sensor. Of six sensors i paid for: two were reading consistently low (I was NOT walking around with a BGL of 2.1), one bled profusely when applied and one did not separate from the applicator properly (leaving a spike sticking up so it had to be removed. They're expensive and i was not happy. If you check online reviews there are lots of complaints about sensor quality control.

[@karlint39]

This is a great, detailed review of an amazing service. I've mailed my poop off for analysis with another service, but there is no blood glucose monitoring, and certainly no muffins. This holistic approach seems like the right way to go about it. I'm eager to watch part 2. Thanks!

[@HealthHackers]

Thanks Karl! How did the analysis go with the other company? Did it tell you much about your gut?

[@karlint39]

@@HealthHackers I haven't gotten that shi* back yet. I'll say they certainly asked A LOT of questions though, from digestion to illnesses to education level, to mental states to income level. I'll try to remember and post again here when I get the results. The stated turnaround time is 6 weeks, so I have like a month left to wait. I know the ZOE project got sidetracked with the whole Pandemic thing -- and that was an admirable thing to do -- but I'm looking forward to their future activities regarding food, health and the gut microbiome. I wonder if they are planning to expand to other countries. There's a big cultural component to food, so simply translating the food choices in the app probably won't create something that, for example, people in Japan or China would find ideally suited to their eating habits.

[@bobadams7654]

Nice, clear, informative video. Many thanks. It was really good to link in the interview with Tim.

[@doobiedootwo3517]

Doesnt seem too expensive for such a highly personalised programme including use of the glucose monitor, blood and poo tests. If you compare to WW or SW it stacks up. Cant wait to give it a try now it has launched in the UK

[@jena9813]

So helpful! I am on day 1 of Zoe and your two videos provided a great overview and really helped set expectations.

[@zayzay7906]

How is it going?? How much weight did you lose?

[@oldschoolabrahamhicks2742]

So great esp as it has the man himself in it! Just starting the programme!

[@HealthHackers]

Thank you for watching!

[@davidmcgough8736]

Yes, I pile in a lot of plants eating the rainbow fruits/veg, etc ... every day and live with sadly profound inflammation levels due to my very tough life so getting to know our bodies responses to what we eat and the suitability of our diets is very valuable because we can't always be feeling/seeing our actual reactions in our guts to what we eat. Would have thought eating Dates could be nutritionally informative more than muffins especially with allergies. Look forward to part 2 David

[@HealthHackers]

Thanks David. I’ve been piling plants too😊

[@rosemj9455]

Thanks for your review! Do they also advise how to improve your glucose and fat responses or is it more about tailoring your diet?

[@HealthHackers]

It’s about tailoring your diet to improve glucose and fat responses. 👍

[@lgflanang]

Anything about health being commercialized is no better than the food industry's push. Money is the goal.

[@101mosioatunya]

My Libre3 monitor was a disappointment. I attached it fine but couldn't get it to connect at all at first. I put a "disappointed" message on the Libre site and was helped by a Customer Services person to get it to work. I though all was fine because I could see the CGM information appearing but all wasn't fine. The information wasn't visible to Zoe. To cut a long story short, an attempt by Zoe Chat to help me to do this only resulted in 14 days of information being wiped! The result is that no blood sugar sensor analysis can be done. I haven't been offered the opportunity to repeat this step of the procedure. The Chat is taking days and days to respond to a conversation and I understand that they are overwhelmed by the messages they are receiving. I don't speak to the same person very often with the result that I am having to repeat myself again and again which is very frustrating. Can we sort this out, Zoe, please? I have invested a lot of faith and hope in this program and, so far, I've experienced nothing but frustration!

[@HealthHackers]

How frustrating! Have you had any luck with sorting it all out since you left this comment?

[@45graham45]

So how much does it cost? Anyone here know?

[@juliashearer7842]

Is part 2 available yet? Very interested to see results. I love this idea. I agree that the muffins are a downside though. I don't eat anything processed and I would struggle to eat them I think.

[@HealthHackers]

Thanks Julia. Hoping to have part 2 within next couple of months. If you hit subscribe you’ll get a notification when it publishes. Or follow @healthhackers on Instagram.👍

[@fbs1917]

Thanks for the video. Great information. All for the good of science. I joined the program thanks to Dr. B

[@HealthHackers]

Thanks for your feedback! How are you finding the program?

[@mikeedwards7194]

Is that six-monthly payments? Or six monthly payments?

[@wiktoriagwozdowska5484]

i recently found out this program is launched in Uk and came here to understand a little bit more about it, my question is whether you are required to send back a glucose monitoring device the one where you see your blood sugar? Because I was wondering if we can keep it so that in the future if I want to buy refills i could use the device to monitor it with it .

[@HealthHackers]

Hi, from what I can remember, yes I did send back the device.

[@luweezla]

The instructions are confusing

[@kickpublishing]

I’ve been doing keto for a year and workout for an hour a day but by fa the hardest thing I’ve done is force down those dry muffins for breakfast

[@HealthHackers]

🥴

[@SimonARBaker]

Great two videos. The 10% link does not result in 10% at checkout nor is there a way to enter the code.

[@HealthHackers]

Hi Simon, Thanks for watching! ZOE informed me that they decided to pause the affiliate program I was part of for the foreseeable future. That means the discount code no longer works. I'm sorry :(

[@jessicasinger8424]

Has part 2 been done yet? Curious to see your results.

[@HealthHackers]

Not yet! Coming soon. When you hit the subscribe button on this KZbin channel, you’ll get notified about new videos. Or you can follow @healthhackers on Instagram and I’m sure I will post about the second ZOE video when it’s published. Thanks for watching!

[@pundle66]

Fascinating, I would love to try this. Not sure we will see it available in NZ any time soon though 😔

[@lesleychallacombe4547]

Such a helpful and informative video , thank you so much !

[@HealthHackers]

Lesley, thank you for watching and taking the time to leave a nice comment. It means a lot!

[@wendyanthony1282]

I am thoroughly fed up with this as I have spent a week trying to get started. My (good) phone won't link to the new app, I have set the start date 3 times and then this hasn't registered for some reason so I'm starting anyway. Now I don't have the instructions to do what else us required. No one gets back in live chat and you can't ring them. A waste of £300 and VERY frustrating!! 😡😡😡

[@HealthHackers]

Oh wow. I'm sorry to hear that, Wendy. I really hope you get to the bottom of it and find some kind of resolution soon :(

[@TeresaGriffith]

@wendyanthony1282 - did you manage to get it going?

[@wendyanthony1282]

I did get it going but affixed the new sensor but had problems getting started so 'lost' 4 days of my blood sugar tests which was very disappointing. I also find now that, despite paying for all of this, you need to pay for at least another month's membership to achieve anything. Messages rarely get responded to within 3 days. They definitely need to sort themselves out!!

[@sherimillman53]

What about family studies and people with health conditions?

[@TeresaGriffith]

Yes, I wondered that. My other half has a chronic gut condition - I don't think he'd succumb to this though.

[@martinmadaus6966]

I tried Zoe for 4 weeks and I found it fairly useless. The information provided is extremely basic, the test results not informative and the food logging insufficient as many foods are not in their data base. The glucose sensor also stopped working after 4 days and the replacement sensor fell off when exercising. Cannot recommend them

[@HealthHackers]

Oh dear. Did you tell them what happened?

[@TeresaGriffith]

I just cannot stand the thought of eating muffins - would never touch them normally, I like crunchy wholemeal food! Thought about overcoming my revulsion for the big reveal - saw a price of about £250, managed to get a 10% discount code by subscribing to something - went to the checkout with the cheapest plan available £299 - nowhere to put the discount code - then started reading these comments. Losing interest now. (I think it was this video reviewer who said weighing stuff out was a phaff). I think the time I'd spend weighing stuff out might be better spent doing something more dynamic.

[@Moi_81]

I honestly think when you receive the product for free it is sponsored. Your payment is the item, which in this case is fairly expensive.

[@HealthHackers]

Hi Moi. Thanks for your comment. When I review items independently, I am sometimes loaned the products. In this case, ZOE included a blood test and a poop test - tricky items to borrow. 🤣 If I wasn’t loaned or given items, making informative and honest review videos would be an incredibly expensive job. ZOE sent me the kit to try out. When I see sponsored content online, that suggests to me that a brand intentionally paid the creator to make the video/feature with a joint agreement and purpose of advertising their product within the content. ZOE did not ask me to create an advert for them or pay me to say good things about the product (my videos always include my dislikes about a product too). I always disclose affiliate arrangements with brands, as you can see in the summary text on this video. I’ve written more about how my affiliate arrangements work here: healthhackers.org/disclaimer I’d be interested to hear your view: How would you prefer to title this video to differentiate it from others that were paid for with an agreed intention to be endorsements or adverts?

[@richjback]

‘Includes paid promotion’ includes free products for the purposes of reviews.

[@susydyson1750]

Sounds great however I live in Peru so I’m out! 😢

[@frentbow]

Are the muffins vegan?

[@robinwright531]

No

[@cassieoz1702]

Id be useless at this. I HATE eating breakfast, sometimes dont eat lunch and carby stuff like those muffins makes me hurt all over.

[@ashleygutierrez8305]

This is fascinating!

[@HealthHackers]

Part 2 coming today!

[@whatsinaplant4417]

Couldn’t agree more. Instructions are ridiculously confusing.

[@HealthHackers]

How are you finding the rest of the experience?

[@whatsinaplant4417]

While I stand by what I said about the instructions, especially at the beginning, the coaches are amazing, so incredibly responsive and knowledgeable and patient.. They made up for the gaps in instructions. I’ve learned so much over the past eight days. I highly recommend the Zoe program and can’t wait for my results. Thank you for the videos and for your questions.

[@TeresaGriffith]

@@whatsinaplant4417 Let us know how you get on...

[@Chad123x]

I hope it’s affordable for normal people not just rich people

[@HealthHackers]

Pricing details are towards the end of the video👌

[@Chad123x]

I’m in the UK so I guess around £250 out of reach for many people then

[@HealthHackers]

I don’t create the prices. 🤷‍♀️ But this testing experience involves some complex scientific analysis. Given all the elements, how much would you expect it to be?

[@Chad123x]

Comment of cost was not aimed at you . Hopefully cost will come down when other companies catch on. I use chuckling goat gut biome Test . Excellent company they have helped me a lot. Hopefully price will come down. It just with Covid and job losses the people really struggling with ill health and gut problems probably won’t be able to afford it. So only a certain section of the population will be able to try it.

[@HealthHackers]

Chuckling Goat helped me a lot too. www.healthhackers.org/article-list/2018/7/17/did-this-drink-transform-my-skin Shann was also a guest on this channel back in the earlier days of healthHackers. 👍 Yes, I appreciate your point about difficult times and finances. Priorities take precedence.

[@romanw6636]

I cannot imagine why anyone would consider this program given that Tim Spector can't talk for 30s without making an utter fool of himself (e.g. if people eat too much following a BG dip then the problem is THAT THEY EAT TOO MUCH so it's beyond ridiculous for this guy to claim that calorie counting doesn't work because people sometimes eat too much). I hope you were paid well for this advert given that you literally had to risk your life to produce this advert.

[@fractalbeans9513]

Appalling science meets good marketing! Hope they will be exposed as soon as possible!

[@cassieoz1702]

None of it's proof. Its all observational/correlative which, i was taught, are weak research. It concerns me that folks buy in (financially) to fund TS's research.

[@zoomankat]

Well I know which one of You two looks the Healthiest and it's not Tim.