• Weight regulation: Challenges with weight loss or weight maintenance despite appropriate lifestyle intervention. Hormonal changes through permenopause and menopause influencing weight gain.
• Metabolic risk: Dyslipidaemia, insulin resistance or central weight gain influencing weight loss strategies.
• Variable diet response: Personalise weight loss, weight managment interventions to their unique genetic needs.
• Appetite regulation concerns: Patterns of increased hunger, snacking or reduced satiety affecting energy balance.
• Exercise response variability: Steady progress in training consistency, with targeted opportunities for enhanced body composition gains.
• Preventive metabolic assessment: Individuals seeking additional genetic influence insights alongside biochemical markers.

Overview

DNA Diet® is a genetic test that evaluates variation in genes involved in appetite signalling, fat metabolism, insulin regulation and energy balance. These pathways influence how individuals regulate body weight and respond to dietary or exercise intervention to enhance weight maintenance or weight loss strategies.

Individual genetic variability may help provide clinical context in individuals with persistent weight management challenges or variable response to nutrition strategies. Assessment of metabolic and behavioural regulation pathways can support understanding of variability in satiety, body composition change or metabolic risk markers. The test also includes, optimal diet type suggestions based on genetic variances as well as a MET hour report for minimum requirements for weight loss.

Results are interpreted alongside clinical findings, dietary history and laboratory markers where appropriate. The test may be useful for guiding further investigation or informing structured weight management planning to enhance optimal goal attainment.

Practical

Test type:

DNA: Gene, diet, exercise, weight management

Sample required:

Bloodspot

Average processing time:

18-21 days

Privacy policy:

The DNA and the original sample material are destroyed after 3 months, so that there are no names or other identifiers on the samples. The samples are analysed only for the SNPs that are included in the tests at DNALife, and no other research or analyses are performed without a separate permission from the patient. We do not give or sell the results to any third parties.