In November 2021, we added HLA2.5 and HLA-DQ8 to the Nutrition Genome Report. Published research shows that approximately 30-40 percent of the general population have variants in the celiac disease risk HLA genes, yet only 3% of these individuals develop celiac...
COMT V158M is most known for understanding the variation of dopamine’s baseline level and metabolic breakdown. Heterozygous or homozygous variants for the COMT V158M gene slow down the COMT enzyme, affecting estrogen metabolism and the breakdown of dopamine and...
Do you take fish oil? Did you know that your APOE genotype may determine the response to DHA supplementation? Dr. Rhonda Patrick published a study with a hypothesis on why APOE-e4 carriers respond well to the DHA present in fish and fish roe but do not respond as well...
U.S. health experts are warning a highly contagious Covid omicron variant, called BA.2, could soon lead to another uptick in domestic coronavirus cases. BA.2 is considered to be about 50% to 60% more transmissible than omicron, but it does not appear to be more...
Evidence of human adaptation can be found up and down the genome; a unique tapestry of collected stories and struggles of your ancestors over thousands of years. Whether your ancestors adapted to dairy consumption 4,000 years ago, a higher carbohydrate intake from...
Infertility is defined as not being able to get pregnant (conceive) after one year of trying. For the last few decades, the rate of infertility in the United States has increased. It has been estimated that between 16 and 25% of all couples have serious difficulty...
A study published in April of 2021 set out to prove that epigenetic interventions – including diet, sleep, exercise, and breathing exercises – could reduce the DNA methylation clock (DNAmAge) that has been found to predict all-cause mortality and multiple...
Estrogen and progesterone have tremendous influence over numerous physiological actions. One of the most common associations with imbalanced hormones is the effect on mood. This can be debilitating for some women when their hormones are bouncing between extremes. You...
For the last year, the world’s focus has been on COVID-19 and protecting each other from infection. While this will continue to be our focus, so will the mental health repercussions of lockdown and isolation for people around the globe. Anxiety levels have been at an...
Imagine the foreman of a construction site rolling out a blueprint of a new city. The individual blueprints for all the city blocks represent the sequence of DNA instructions carried in your cells. Now imagine all of the skilled workers taking those instructions and...
When people decide on a place to live, what is one of the most influential factors? Weather. Does it get too cold? Too hot? Too humid? Does it rain too much? How many days of sunshine? Our DNA has been heavily designed by the environments our ancestors have lived in...
Medically reviewed by Dr. Alejandra Carrasco, MD nourishmedicine.com Since March of 2020, the research on SARS-CoV-2 and the illness caused by it – COVID-19 – has been getting published at an accelerated rate. Nutrition Genome has been monitoring all of...
