Genetic Test: 6 Reasons Why You Need a Practitioner to Get the Most of Your Test
If you’ve been considering a genetic test, it’s important to understand the reasons why you need a practitioner to get the most of your genetic test. Does this sound familiar?
You’ve been on a journey for optimal health, yet aren’t sure where to go. You try traveling down one path of health and wellness recommendations, yet come to a dead end. You try another road that looks promising, yet find disappointment again. All these paths of health and wellness seem like they’re made for other people. Where’s the path made just for you?
Better with Nutrition knows it’s out there, and we can help you find it.
And you’re right — there is one specially-made path just for you, and you don’t have to find it through trial and error. You just have to take a test: A genetic test.
Practitioners can help you find the right path to optimum health, and help you navigate it with ease and success. Here are six ways we do it.
Guide
It’s the classic story: A hero goes on a journey, and at the start of that journey, they meet a mentor or a guide to show them the way. It’s typically the same when a patient — the hero — wants to find better health. They’re not as healthy as they used to be, or they want answers around a chronic illness, or they want to adopt a healthier lifestyle, or they find that the wellness methods that work for everyone else don’t work for them. The patient, or hero, knows they need to go on a journey to find better health, and as they begin to seek answers, that’s where we come in. We know how to find the path to personalized healthcare, and we then become your guide on the journey.
Investigator
Practitioners then become investigators, as we ask you all sorts of questions to get to know you. We don’t just want to know about your symptoms — we want to know everything: where do you live, what do you do for work, what do you do for exercise, what do you like to snack on, what’s your family history? Those answers will help us put together a fuller picture of your health. Then, in order to truly understand how your body functions at the cellular level, we administer the ultimate test: A genetic test!
Interpreter
Once we receive the results of your genetic test, we then turn into an interpreter. Your genetic test will give us insights across a number of areas, including how your cells and systems function, how your genes impact your cardiovascular system and nutrient absorption, and how your genes inform your energy and activity levels. We look at these results coupled with everything you told us about you, and interpret the findings for you.
Teacher
Once we interpret those findings, then we can teach you more about yourself, and how your body works! You may not have ever known that you have genes that impact how your heart muscle contracts, or how iron is stored in your body, or how quickly you metabolize caffeine. We’ll teach you about how your cells and systems work, and ideally you’ll have some “a-ha” moments, where your genetics finally explain how you knew your body to function all along.
Coach
Then, we turn into a coach. We don’t just teach you about yourself, we want you to act on what you learn. So like a coach assigning exercises or drills, we’ll assign you recommendations around different types of food and lifestyle choices to get you to better optimize your genetic makeup. We’ll coach you through new activities and new eating habits and new sleeping patterns. We want you to work at it because we know you’ll succeed.
Cheerleader
Finally, as you make progress on your new daily choices and habits, and begin to see how knowing more about your genes has truly set you on your individualized path to health and wellness, we cheer you on! We want you to succeed and fix the root causes of chronic disease, and change your life so you can be around longer in the future, and live a full, happy life. However, we’ll continue to be your guide, your teacher, and your coach as you continue your journey.
Beginning Your Journey
Have you found the path towards optimal health and wellness uniquely made for you yet? Take that first step, and we’ll be right there ready for you.
Ready to start your personalized health journey?
Let’s talk! I’d love to hear your journey thus far.
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