The human microbiome, is a community of a wide variety of bacteria, archaea, fungi and viruses that populate the inside and the outside of our body. This includes our skin and digestive system. New knowledge about the critical role the skin and gut microbiome play regarding our skin and overall health is rapidly exciting the healthcare field.
Miznee’s Mirror is used to uniquely characterize microbiome by their optical properties to enable easy and fast identification. Images captured by a camera on a smartphone or endoscope are used.
Not all microorganisms are bad, it turns out, but we better know the good from the bad! So like any ecosystem in nature, a balance of both maintains ‘law & order’ and a healthy environment. For example, many treatments for acne go all out to eradicate the p. acnes bacteria. That’s a big mistake and leads to negative impacts on the skin being treated. Why? Well, p. acnes has variants, some are pathogenic (bad for health basically) but some are important for good skin health by preventing opportunistic pathogenic microorganisms from colonizing the skin. Your gut and your skin are environments, believe it or not. Think, deserts, amazon jungle, marshland etc. But all on a tiny scale.
Look closer – it’s a jungle out there!
Mirror is the pioneering way to see, quantify and monitor human microbiome just from photos
Your skin microbiome utilize light energy in different ways and to different extent. This means you and your skincare expert can use Miznée Mirror to get a sense of your skin microbiome in various areas of your face or other parts of your body. Scientists believe that each person has a unique microbiome and it changes according to stages in our life. Miznée Mirror shows skin images and analytics unique to you alone.
