June is Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month. Check out the latest podcast from our founder, Alex Swanson, as he talks with Ladies Road Map about how genetic testing can help you become proactive to protect your brain. Click HERE to listen to the full podcast!      ...

Folate is a B-vitamin found highest in dark green vegetables, liver, fermented foods and drinks and certain fruits. DNA and RNA synthesis, DNA maintenance, methylation and healthy cell division are all dependant on folate status. Folate deficiency causes...

Two of the most vital nutrients for healthy DNA expression are folate and choline. This is because they are major methyl donors for methylation, which means turning genes off and on without changing the DNA sequence. This process is the foundation of...

Researchers have debated how early humans started making wine. Some believe it was at the beginning of agriculture, approximately 10,000 years ago. Although, it could be argued that fermented alcoholic drinks like mead (honey wine) go back even further, due to...

BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 are tumor suppressor genes that are tested by doctors to help determine breast and ovarian cancer risk that run in families that are typically estrogen negative. Mutations in the BRCA genes can cause a reduced ability to repair DNA double-strand...

In the book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell tells the story of the Roseto mystery. In the late 1800's, people from Roseto, Italy began immigrating to Pennsylvania. The new arrivals started buying land, planting backyard vegetable gardens and vineyards, raising pigs, and...

Alzheimer's disease is becoming more and more common in today's world, with many of us knowing a loved one who has suffered from the disorder. However, nutrigenomics and epigenomics research have given us hope on how to approach Alzheimer's by being proactive to...

One of the most common questions we get is "what is the difference between the Nutrition Genome DNA Collection Kit and Genetic Report and the 23andme version of the Nutrition Genome Report?" First, we want to point out that we only recommend running the V4 23andme...