Exposure to toxins is unavoidable and how we process and metabolise these toxins may determine overall health status. While the body's innate ability to process toxins is usually very efficient, it can be overloaded, leading to increased toxic burden and impaired detoxification capacity. The result of this can contribute to chronic disease and compromised health. 

This testing helps to better understand your ability to detoxify and eliminate certain exogenous and endogenous compounds, allowing you to target patient treatment plans to effectively enhance this process to improve overall wellbeing.

Hormones are important for a myriad of functions in the body that look after endocrine health, mental health, reproductive health and fertility. Hormonal imbalances can contribute to numerous health concerns and conditions that affect men and women through all stages of life, fertility and pregnancy.

This testing can help to optimise pregnancy health and reduce risk of miscarriage and neural tube defects by identifying the most appropriate form of folate according to patient’s gene profile.

The methylation cycle is responsible for a plethora of important functions in the body from healthy gene expression and immune cell function, to energy production and weight management. The methylation cycle is also responsible for the regulation of homocysteine levels, which when raised and left untreated increases the risk of certain chronic diseases. 

This testing can be used to help identify modifiable risk factors for diabetes, depression, cardiovascular disease, reproductive issues, healthy cell production and cognitive dysfunction.

Our genetic makeup may play an important role in the way we think and feel. How genes are expressed determines how various processes in the body such as the methylation cycle, neurotransmitter production and nutrient metabolism systems function. Alterations or dysfunction in any of these processes may contribute to the causes of mood disorders and cognitive decline.

Understanding how an individual’s genetic makeup influences neurotransmitter production and metabolism may help to uncover key contributing factors to depression, anxiety and other mood disorders.

Nutrigenomics provides an understanding of how certain foods affect the expression of our genes. In other words, this profile explores exactly how ‘we are what we eat’. Understanding nutrigenomics helps to identify the contributing factors to persistently low nutrient levels and the signs, symptoms and conditions associated with these deficiencies.

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How nutrients are metabolised, absorbed and utilised and the impact this has on our genes, is a core component of being able to treat the root cause of a patient’s presenting condition. Understanding which nutrients are best matched to a person’s genetic profile is essential to generating effective and therapeutic treatment plans. Understanding of the nutrigenomic profile will help patients with a variety of issues from addressing an interest in general health through to fighting chronic fatigue or recurrent infections.