Are Your Genes Helping or Hampering Your Health?
The Truth is INSIDE
Yes, the truth is within each of our bodies. Wouldn’t you like to be able to see the future? Or maybe you have seen a possible future in your father, mother, grandfather or grandmother. Will that be you? What can you do about it? Three key components affect our health and well-being:
Genetics
Lifestyle
Environment
Although our genetic make-up is predetermined, we have the chance to make a difference in what might be our destiny.
The study of genetics has been greatly improved through recent advances in technology and gene identification. Through gene identification, we can find out what conditions we are most likely to develop.
From there, it is up to each of us to make choices and decisions that will help prevent these problems. These choices have to do with our lifestyle and environment. The lifestyle we live and the environments we choose to be in are considered choices we have control over.
We have control over:
What we eat – a diet high in fat and low in fruits and vegetables adds to cardiac health risks.
What we drink – consumption of a high volume of soda, caffeine, or alcohol can affect our state of hydration, our ability to clear our bodies of waste products and cause us to age faster.
What we smoke – smoking can lead to serious health issues and affects the function of our entire respiratory system.
Whether we exercise – exercise will support cardiac health and keep bones, muscles, and joints strong.
Whether we get adequate rest – our bodies need time to replenish our energy stores each day. Lack of sleep causes daytime irritability, moodiness, and a lack of ability to focus.
Where we live – we can choose to live in an urban area with high levels of pollution or in a more rural area with cleaner air. A high level of pollution adds to the toxins and waste products that our body must clear daily.
The stress level in our lives – a constant high level of stress in our lives causes our entire body to have to work harder. It lessens our ability to fight off illnesses, stresses our cardiovascular system and makes us age faster.
As thinking human beings, we can, to some extent, control our lifestyle and environment and ultimately change our future.
The information contained in your Integrative Genomics Profile will give you the information to make the best preventive lifestyle and environment choices. You can be confident that this profile is safe, easy, confidential, and effective.
