Mood Sense
Mood Sense is the only at-home test that empowers you to steady your mood. From start to finish, it takes 15 minutes to reveal what supplements and dosage will help you reduce the emotional noise and take back control.
The Science
Mood Sense centers on one-carbon metabolism, also known as methylation. Your body produces a chemical called SAMe (also known as a methyl donor) that regulates your neurotransmitter levels. The supply of methyl donors can shift, becoming either too much (overmethylation) or too little (undermethylation)..
We use the methyl scale to visually represent your methyl supply. Based on your test results, the scale can help you determine the severity of methylation-based mood disruption that fluctuates based on hormones, diet and more.
How does methyl supply affect mood?
As your methyl supply shifts, it changes your neurotransmitter levels. These neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine) are crucial for mood, sleep, memory, motivation, attention, and more. There are some important genes involved in methylation. The MTHFR and COMT genes (among others) have an impact on methylation levels, but they aren’t the only factors. Hormones can play just as much a role in methylation levels.
When hormones fluctuate they affect methyl supply, which changes neurotransmitter production and recycling. When neurotransmitters levels are altered for any reason, it can contribute to depression, anxiety, agitation, decreased attention and motivation, and fatigue, among other symptoms.
From day-to-day your diet, activity and hormones are changing your methyl supply. This is why Mood Sense is so important: you can track and address methyl supply imbalances in real-time.
The neurotransmitters involved in mood include:
Serotonin. Mood regulation, sleep patterns, appetite, anxiety, and pain.
Dopamine. Reward, pleasure, motivation, attention, learning, memory.
Norepinephrine. Attention, focus, stress response.
How it will help you
Because Mood Sense is based in the metabolic science (one-carbon metabolism, methylation) that affects all human brains and bodies, it can help in varied situations:
Daily mood disruptions, like emotional supersensitivity, excessive rumination, persistent anger, worry, anxious and on edge, long-lasting sadness
Heightened emotions around menstrual cycles
Wild emotional fluctuations during perimenopause
Emotionally meeting in the middle with your significant other
(At a fundamental level, it helps you to see and balance your methylation level.)
You can now feel better in 15 minutes!
Getting started
We don’t offer supplements (yet!), but we link you to a clean brand that works well.
It’s an easy saliva test
If you’ve taken a COVID test, you can do this easily.
Brush teeth and tongue using water
Lightly chew on a cotton swab to capture your saliva
Extract and drop your saliva onto the test device
After 15 minutes, record your results in the portal and get supplement dose recommendations (after you establish your “mood baseline”)
