Unlock the secrets in your genetic code for optimal health & wellness

MyDNAHealth Optimal Health Pro nutri-genetic panel plus nutritional support

Ready to tap into your unique genetic information to discover what your body is calling for to achieve optimal health? Genetic and lifestyle analyses help enable deeply personalised solutions to health conditions and wellness goals. And you take home a powerful, personal DNA-based blueprint for life-long eating and lifestyle choices that helps enable your body to thrive.

IS THIS TEST FOR YOU?

Support based on the latest in nutri-genetics can help people with a range of health goals take a proactive, highly personalised approach to their nutrition and lifestyle:

• You’re generally in good health and are simply keen to optimise your health and wellbeing

• You’re thinking long-term and want to understand and reduce risk of some life-changing health problems and genetic factors impacting your metabolic health

• Or, it could be you are already contending with health concerns such as hormone imbalances, menopause, infertility or diabetes, which are driving you to develop understanding of your body and take action around your health. I sometimes recommend this test to clients whom I’m already working on their health where it would be beneficial to understand where the genetic picture might be influencing their outcomes and how best to navigate that.

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM WORKING TOGETHER

Your genes are your tendency - but not your destiny. Your genetic patterns affect how you process what you eat, and whilst you can't change your genes per se, you can influence genetic expression through your nutrition and lifestyle choices in order to lower your health risk and help you get the health outcomes you desire.

Certain circumstances in life can cause genes to be silenced (turned off) or expressed (turned on) over time. This means that genes can be activated and deactivated by signals from your environment. These signals include stress, emotional upsets, toxins, nutrition, exercise and sleep for example. This is the science of epigenetics - your health fate is not written in stone even if you have genetic predispositions.

Through this test we access the unique information within you by profiling about forty genes that are well-understood and well-researched specifically in relation to 25 areas of health and wellness. We are only assessing the genes that influence issues that we can do something about - those that help you to understand your body and its personal tendencies, and how to work with them and not against them.  Tested and reported are genetic variants for:

• sleep and stress

• appetite regulation

• saturated fats response

• blood sugar control

• propensity to higher BMI

• detoxification ability

• methylation function

• oestrogen imbalance

• inflammation

• APoE genotype

• iron sensitivity

• essential fatty acid pathways

• caffeine sensitivity

• lactose intolerance

• coeliac risk

• Nutrient requirements: vitamin D, vitamin B and folate, magnesium, glutathione, vitamin C, antioxidants and omegas.

Lifestyle assessment, interpretation & action

Your DNA report includes personalised, colour-coded genotype results overlaid with a complete holistic lifestyle assessment of the current factors impacting your personal gene expression. Importantly, this enables us to gauge the potential impact of your habits and environment on gene expression here and now.  In other words, we will highlight whether your risk potential is being realised through diet and lifestyle choices in specific areas, or whether what you’re doing is already working for you. This epigenetic focus helps make the Reset a particularly empowering process.

You will receive full recommendations for lifestyle and nutrition including eating guidance and exercise modifications, and I will help you turn these into an inspiring, manageable action plan that you can make work within the practicalities of your every day life. I will also provide a personalised DNA and lifestyle-based supplement plan.

SUMMARY OF WHAT YOUR SUPPORT PACKAGE INCLUDES:

• MyDNAHealth Optimal Health Pro nutri-genetic panel; results interpretation and reporting

• Personalised nutrition support including an in-depth health and lifestyle assessment, an initial personal consultation of 1.5 to 2 hours to discuss your results in the context of your broader health and wellbeing and health goals, and plan your actions accordingly

• Personalised supplement plan, if required, with current medication and nutrients interaction evaluation

• Seasonal recipes and meal ideas, shopping list and example meal plans

• Progress review call three weeks later: 30 minutes

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

• Your test kit is posted out to your within 2 working days.

• Please return your sample directly to the laboratory by post/collection - details of which are in your kit.

• You will be emailed Gut Reaction’s clinic terms along with a Diet & Lifestyle Questionnaire and three-day food diary log so I can gather information from you about your current health challenges, your goals, medical history, and put your results in context ahead of our session together.

• Your test results are sent from the laboratory to myself, your practitioner, within 3 weeks of the receipt of your sample, and as soon as this is received, I will contact you to set-up your appointment to review the results and make a personalised plan of action with you.

• After our first session, I will follow-up 3 weeks later to review your progress, at which time you may wish to consider if you would like further help on your journey to optimal health. For example, I use this test frequently with clients doing the Resilience programme for which different packages of support are available. Please talk to me if you’d like to find out more about this.

• Easy access to my information and support services is available on an ongoing basis should you require further help in learning how to adjust your habits whilst ensuring a well-balanced relationship with food, and maintaining a motivated, resourceful mindset for lifelong wellbeing.