Functional Testing
Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics
We work with the leading experts in Nutrigenomics testing
Lifecode Gx®
They apply the latest genomics science and combine it with their clinical approach to create relevant, comprehensive and actionable nutrigenomics reports. This enables a truly personalised approach to health.
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Methylation
Methylation is involved in almost every metabolic process in the body, occurring billions of times every second in our cells and contributing to numerous crucial functions. This is why it is included in all our packages; it underpins everything!
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Nervous System
The nervous system supports the transmission of messages around the mind and body, enabling an individual to respond to their environment.
This panel is ideal for looking at mental health, neurodiversity, anxiety, sleep and stress concerns.
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Metals and Minerals
This foundational test analyses how gene variants can affect the absorption, distribution and excretion of metals and minerals, impacting their balance and status in the body.
This panel is ideal for looking at mental health, neurodiversity, anxiety, sleep or energy concerns.
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Metabolics
The Metabolics Report transforms our understanding of how genes confer metabolic individuality and underpin energy regulation, longevity and healthspan.
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Nutrient Core
This foundational test analyses how gene variants can affect food tolerance (and intolerance), appetite control and blood sugar balance, vitamin and mineral needs, detoxification ability, and susceptibility to inflammation and infection.
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Hormones
Steroid hormones come from cholesterol and act as chemical messengers. They control many body functions in men and women, including reproductive development and function, metabolism, inflammation, and immune response.
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Detoxification
Detoxification is how the body removes harmful substances, mainly via the liver. It alters chemicals—food additives, pesticides, drugs, pollutants, alcohol, hormones and some nutrients—so they can be eliminated. This panel shows detox pathways that may cause symptoms like headaches, bloating, reflux, chronic infections, poor mental clarity and fatigue.
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Thyroid balance
Thyroid hormones regulate the metabolism of nearly every cell, affecting growth, energy use, and the heart. Too little or too much thyroid hormone causes many symptoms, including weight gain or loss, tiredness, low sex drive, sensitivity to cold or heat, dry skin, constipation, mood changes (depression or anxiety), heart palpitations, and insomnia.
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Histamine intolerance
Histamine has many functions: as a neurotransmitter, communicating messages to and from the brain and nervous system; triggering the release of stomach acid to help digestion; and it can also be released after stress, injury or allergic reaction as part of the body’s immune response.
Genes serve as the instructions for everything in your body, similar to a building blueprint and an operation manual.
Think of them as the fixed design features that make us unique—like eye colour, nose shape, and gender. They also act as the instruction manual for how our body functions. The code in our genes helps create proteins and enzymes that perform vital jobs, such as detoxifying in the liver, producing blood cells, or making neurotransmitters.
Nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics examine small variations in the genome, known as SNPs (pronounced ‘snips’), and how they can affect us. Sometimes these ‘snips’ have no impact on the body, but sometimes they can speed up or slow down a pathway, or make a receptor a little more or less sensitive.
For example, the GC gene codes for a vitamin D-binding protein that transports vitamin D from your skin to your liver, kidneys and tissues.
If there is a SNP on the gene, then the ability to bind and transport vitamin D is reduced; hence, that individual likely has a greater requirement for vitamin D than someone without the SNP.