Your genes hold the key to your health. At Reclaimed Health, we utilize genetic testing to unlock your physical foundation to build a better future.
If you’ve heard about genetic testing in the past decade, it’s probably been through the marketing of ancestry companies. There’s the allure of finding out where you came from (or uncovering family secrets!), and at-home kits provided by these companies have shown everyday people how easy it is to test their DNA.
But unfortunately, due to the popularity and widespread marketing of ancestry tests, most people aren’t aware of the other benefits genetic testing can provide. While ancestry testing simply tells you where your family came from, genetic testing for health and wellness can lead you to a whole array of actionable insights into optimizing your eating, exercise, lifestyle choices, and more in order to achieve better health.
As we’ve been utilizing genetic testing with our patients at Reclaimed Health, here are a few ways genetic testing can inform your health and wellness.
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Personalized Care
You customize your new kitchen. You pick out makeup based on your skin tone. You get a haircut that best fits your head. You use the oil best for your car. Yet a majority of approaches to health and wellness these days focus on a one-size-fits-all approach, prescribing the same diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices to everyone. But everyone is unique — so shouldn't healthcare be tailored to that unique individual? Genetic testing uncovers a person's genetic variants, which give us insight into how that person’s cells and systems function, show the impact of the types of food you eat and the environment around you, and more.
Disease at the Root
In addition to the one-size-fits-all approach to health, many times practitioners are helping their patients simply combat symptoms of chronic illness. Have you gone to the doctor with a headache and only walked away with a painkiller? The results will be as deep as the approach. Constantly treating symptoms can be timely, costly, and often never really address the actual issue. Since genetic testing reveals how your body works at the cellular level, it can point towards the root causes of illnesses that are generating those symptoms. That way, diseases can be treated at the source.
Weight Loss and Metabolism
Struggling to lose weight? Understanding one’s genes can provide valuable insights for effective and sustainable weight management. Genes reveal the ideal exercise type, fat storage patterns, nutrient absorption preferences, and metabolic responses to food and energy expenditure. By unlocking these genetic insights, we eliminate the guesswork and can tailor personalized recommendations for long-term weight management. Let's remove the mystery behind your genetics so you can obtain long-term, sustainable weight management
Know Your Body Better
Knowledge is power. Being able to learn exactly how your body works gives you a better understanding of how to live to your fullest potential. With genetic testing you can learn such things as how your body processes and breaks down hormones, navigate mental health by knowing better how your brain functions, understand how well your body regulates blood sugar and insulin, identify potential markers that could lead to cardiovascular disease and more!
The Right Exercise For You
What if you've been hitting the gym and trying to get fit, but you've been doing the wrong exercises all this time? Getting insights into your genes can actually show you whether your body is more suited for endurance activities, like running or bicycling, or whether your body is more suited for power activities like sprinting or weight lifting. Knowing more about how your body works means being able to choose the right activities for you.
Inherited Disease Prevention
“It's in our genes”. An overly simple statement that we have all thrown around as the likely reason we suffer with whatever issue it is that “runs in the family”. But are you actually likely to develop the same disease your parents did? You’d be surprised how much control you have over the way your genes express, but let's first find out if you are even genetically predisposed to the family disease heirlooms.
Better Daily Choices
As you can see, knowing your genes and how they affect your body can give you insights into many different aspects of your health and wellness so that you can make better choices each day about actions that DIRECTLY affect you.
More Than Ancestry
Knowing your genes can reveal a lot more to you than just what’s stated above. Additionally, as our knowledge continues to increase around how genes work and how they impact our bodies, the blueprint that genetic testing provides for your optimal health will only become more detailed and clear, allowing you to make focused, informed changes to your lifestyle as needed
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