1/ Did you know that you can use your genetic raw data file from #23andMe or #AncestryDNA to learn more about your health?
A thread on using your data to optimize health and prevent chronic disease 🧵
A thread on using your data to optimize health and prevent chronic disease 🧵
2/ When getting started learning about how your #genes impact susceptibility to chronic disease, it can be overwhelming.
It isn't like high school science when you learned you inherited the 'brown eye gene' or the 'short gene'.
It isn't like high school science when you learned you inherited the 'brown eye gene' or the 'short gene'.
3/ Most chronic diseases, like #diabetes or #heart disease, have a genetic component. But it is a combination of multiple genetic variants along with lifestyle factors that lead to disease.
4/ Why even bother with understanding your genetic risk? It just makes sense to focus on the lifestyle and wellness changes that will actually make an impact for you. So much advice from 'health gurus' is generic, applying to the majority, but not to you as an individual.
5/ Where to start? Check the Top 10 genes that will make a major impact.
geneticlifehacks.com/top-10-genes-t…. .
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