Mysterious Creatures from Within: 'Kin-Friends' Arrive in the All-in-One Gut Health App 'Floreco by Mykinso'!
Cykinso Inc. has launched a major update to its 'Floreco by Mykinso' app, introducing 'Kin-Friends,' a new feature that turns gut bacteria into collectible characters. By gamifying gut health tracking, the company aims to help users build sustainable health habits through the joy of nurturing these virtual companions.
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Cykinso Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Yosuke Hara; hereinafter 'Cykinso'), the company behind the 'Mykinso' gut flora testing service—which has conducted over 200,000 tests to date—has implemented a major update to its all-in-one gut health app, 'Floreco by Mykinso' (hereinafter 'Floreco'). Starting today, the app features 'Kin-Friends,' a new function that turns the bacteria inside your gut into characters.
With this update, Floreco evolves from a simple recording app into a platform where you grow alongside the mysterious creatures living inside you. By combining scientific insights based on over 200,000 data points with gamification, the app transforms gut health management from a 'lonely struggle' into the 'joy of raising friends,' helping more people establish healthy habits.
■ New Feature 'Kin-Friends': There was a 'partner' inside you that you've never seen before.
'Kin-Friends' are cute, mysterious creatures living inside the human gut. They live with us and alongside us without us even realizing it. It seems they want you to 'get to know them better.'
Through your daily meal logs and gut health actions in Floreco, these friends will gather around you and evolve into various forms.
■ Enjoy 'Discovery' and 'Evolution': Key Features of 'Kin-Friends'
1. Meet new companions through daily meal logs [Collection Feature]
By photographing and recording your daily meals, new 'Kin-Friends' children will come to you. Through the experience of 'recording = feeding your friends,' the act of logging, which often leads to frustration, turns into a fun exploration time to meet new companions.
2. Gut health actions become the fuel for 'growth' [Evolution Feature]
Using 'Friend Points' earned through gut health activities, you can help your child-like friends 'evolve' into adult forms. This is not just a dress-up feature; it uses an 'evolution' process where child friends grow into diverse adult forms. You won't know what they will become until they do. Occasionally, they may even take on special forms...?
3. Deepen your learning with the 'Friends Encyclopedia' [Educational Feature]
Friends you have befriended are collected in an encyclopedia. With character settings that reflect the actual properties of gut bacteria (such as Bacteroides, Faecalibacterium, etc.), you can naturally improve your literacy regarding 'bacterial functions' and 'gut environments' while playing.
■ Introduction to Main Friends
- Bactero: Loves eating vegetables. A mood-maker who enjoys sharing meals with everyone, eventually becoming a presence that supports the 'symbiotic relationships' of everyone in the gut.
- Prevo: Has a fickle personality. While usually acting indifferent, they have a 'tsundere' (hot-and-cold) nature, secretly caring deeply about others.
- Bifido: Has been full of the desire to protect someone since they were small. As the 'Guardian' of the gut environment, they protect the peace.
Other unique Kin-Friends are waiting for your records.
■ Background and Objective: Solving the Psychological Hurdles of Gut Health with Entertainment
The 'complexity of technical terms' and the 'difficulty of habituation' have been major barriers to gut health. Cykinso approaches this challenge by visualizing gut bacteria as 'visible characters.' Reimagining the inside of your gut as a 'world where friends live' fosters an awareness of taking care of your own body, leading to sustainable health behaviors that contribute to the realization of a 'zero-order prevention society'—where health is maintained at the pre-illness stage.
■ Future Developments
Moving forward, we plan to link this with data from our 'Mykinso' mail-in testing service to provide a 'truly personalized experience' where friends based on the user's actual gut microbiome appear. We will continue to pursue unique healthcare experiences that fuse data science and entertainment, such as further automating meal logging and incorporating health status prediction models.
■ Overview of 'Floreco by Mykinso'
- App Name: Floreco by Mykinso
- Price: Free
- Official Website: https://lp.mykinso.com/floreco
- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6754961839
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mykinso.floreco
About 'Mykinso'
A gut flora (gut microbiome) testing service that anyone can easily perform at home. In addition to a 'Comprehensive Gut Flora Assessment' that evaluates the quality of your gut flora on a 5-point scale, it checks 10 items, including useful bacteria like Bifidobacteria, butyrate-producing bacteria, and equol-producing bacteria, as well as bacteria that require caution due to their link to obesity or colorectal cancer risks. Furthermore, it provides advice on improving your gut environment based on your bacterial profile. We also offer 'Mykinso Pro,' available at over 1,500 medical institutions nationwide, and 'Mykinso Kids,' a testing service specialized for infants.
- Service Site: https://mykinso.com/
- Introduction Video: https://youtu.be/GtIxFi92RFA
With this update, Floreco evolves from a simple recording app into a platform where you grow alongside the mysterious creatures living inside you. By combining scientific insights based on over 200,000 data points with gamification, the app transforms gut health management from a 'lonely struggle' into the 'joy of raising friends,' helping more people establish healthy habits.
■ New Feature 'Kin-Friends': There was a 'partner' inside you that you've never seen before.
'Kin-Friends' are cute, mysterious creatures living inside the human gut. They live with us and alongside us without us even realizing it. It seems they want you to 'get to know them better.'
Through your daily meal logs and gut health actions in Floreco, these friends will gather around you and evolve into various forms.
■ Enjoy 'Discovery' and 'Evolution': Key Features of 'Kin-Friends'
1. Meet new companions through daily meal logs [Collection Feature]
By photographing and recording your daily meals, new 'Kin-Friends' children will come to you. Through the experience of 'recording = feeding your friends,' the act of logging, which often leads to frustration, turns into a fun exploration time to meet new companions.
2. Gut health actions become the fuel for 'growth' [Evolution Feature]
Using 'Friend Points' earned through gut health activities, you can help your child-like friends 'evolve' into adult forms. This is not just a dress-up feature; it uses an 'evolution' process where child friends grow into diverse adult forms. You won't know what they will become until they do. Occasionally, they may even take on special forms...?
3. Deepen your learning with the 'Friends Encyclopedia' [Educational Feature]
Friends you have befriended are collected in an encyclopedia. With character settings that reflect the actual properties of gut bacteria (such as Bacteroides, Faecalibacterium, etc.), you can naturally improve your literacy regarding 'bacterial functions' and 'gut environments' while playing.
■ Introduction to Main Friends
- Bactero: Loves eating vegetables. A mood-maker who enjoys sharing meals with everyone, eventually becoming a presence that supports the 'symbiotic relationships' of everyone in the gut.
- Prevo: Has a fickle personality. While usually acting indifferent, they have a 'tsundere' (hot-and-cold) nature, secretly caring deeply about others.
- Bifido: Has been full of the desire to protect someone since they were small. As the 'Guardian' of the gut environment, they protect the peace.
Other unique Kin-Friends are waiting for your records.
■ Background and Objective: Solving the Psychological Hurdles of Gut Health with Entertainment
The 'complexity of technical terms' and the 'difficulty of habituation' have been major barriers to gut health. Cykinso approaches this challenge by visualizing gut bacteria as 'visible characters.' Reimagining the inside of your gut as a 'world where friends live' fosters an awareness of taking care of your own body, leading to sustainable health behaviors that contribute to the realization of a 'zero-order prevention society'—where health is maintained at the pre-illness stage.
■ Future Developments
Moving forward, we plan to link this with data from our 'Mykinso' mail-in testing service to provide a 'truly personalized experience' where friends based on the user's actual gut microbiome appear. We will continue to pursue unique healthcare experiences that fuse data science and entertainment, such as further automating meal logging and incorporating health status prediction models.
■ Overview of 'Floreco by Mykinso'
- App Name: Floreco by Mykinso
- Price: Free
- Official Website: https://lp.mykinso.com/floreco
- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6754961839
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mykinso.floreco
About 'Mykinso'
A gut flora (gut microbiome) testing service that anyone can easily perform at home. In addition to a 'Comprehensive Gut Flora Assessment' that evaluates the quality of your gut flora on a 5-point scale, it checks 10 items, including useful bacteria like Bifidobacteria, butyrate-producing bacteria, and equol-producing bacteria, as well as bacteria that require caution due to their link to obesity or colorectal cancer risks. Furthermore, it provides advice on improving your gut environment based on your bacterial profile. We also offer 'Mykinso Pro,' available at over 1,500 medical institutions nationwide, and 'Mykinso Kids,' a testing service specialized for infants.
- Service Site: https://mykinso.com/
- Introduction Video: https://youtu.be/GtIxFi92RFA