What Is Nutrigenomics Testing
Nutrigenomics is the study of how your genes and your nutrition interact. Your genes carry the instructions for how your body produces the enzymes that drive its core processes: energy production, detoxification, hormone metabolism, immune function, and more. These enzymes rely on specific nutrients, known as cofactors, to work efficiently.
When genetic variations are present (which is normal and affects all of us to different degrees), certain pathways can function less optimally. Nutrigenomics testing identifies precisely where your body may need additional nutritional support and gives us the tools to provide it in a targeted, evidence-based way.
Research in epigenetics reinforces why this matters. Your diet, environment, stress levels, and lifestyle choices all influence how your genes are expressed. Your genetic tendencies are a starting point, not a fixed outcome. When you know that starting point, you can work with your biology far more effectively than any generic plan would allow.
What Your Genetics Can Reveal
Your report provides clinically meaningful insight across a wide range of your body’s core systems. I assess only the variations where the scientific evidence is strong and where the findings translate into practical recommendations you can act on.
In terms of inflammation and immune function, your results show whether your body tends towards heightened inflammatory responses and which dietary strategies are most relevant for regulating this in your specific case.
Detoxification capacity reflects how efficiently your body processes and eliminates hormones, environmental toxins, and metabolic waste. This is particularly relevant for anyone dealing with hormonal symptoms, persistent skin conditions, or fatigue that standard testing has not explained.
Oestrogen metabolism and hormone balance are areas that frequently produce important findings, especially for women experiencing hormonal symptoms at any life stage, including perimenopause.
Methylation is one of the most clinically significant areas in nutrigenomics. It is a vital process involving multiple interacting genes that influences energy, mood, detoxification, and cellular repair. It is also an area that requires careful, experienced interpretation, and one that I have trained in at an advanced level.
Your results also cover antioxidant capacity, blood sugar regulation, weight management tendencies, nervous system function and stress response, cognitive health, cardiovascular and bone health risk factors, nutrient conversion (including beta-carotene to active vitamin A), lactose tolerance, and caffeine metabolism.
Your genetic results also help identify which functional lab tests are most relevant for your case, so your programme is targeted from the outset rather than built on guesswork.
