How to become a big budget biohacker on a London living wage

If you’re used to tracking your steps, sleep and heart rate with gadgets like Whoop bands and Oura rings, then get ready: the next step is to track your insides.

- Jessica Salter

Stride is a next-gen health optimisation company that tests your gut health, DNA, oral health and methylation (a biochemical process critical to numerous bodily functions) developed by former British Olympic athlete turned health tech entrepreneur Andrew Steele.

The membership scheme, which launches this month, provides access to a health coach to analyse results and provide recommendations, then retests every six months to monitor progress and check for new symptoms. It is, as Steele says, the “UK’s first diagnostics-driven, preventative health membership”.

Stride, which costs £499 per year, works by taking blood, DNA and gut microbiome tests (all of which you can do at home). Then you get a series of in-depth reports, along with a call with a health professional to provide dietary advice, supplementation and stress and exercise recommendations.