Many patients are choosing to become more proactive about their health. They know that nutrition and lifestyle factors exert a strong influence on how, or even if, a gene will express itself. Knowing about increased risk and specific risk reduction strategies is the first step towards an effective primary prevention program.

Through carefully targeted dietary, nutritional, and lifestyle changes, as well as pharmacological therapies, it is often possible to modify the expression of genes and to overcome genetic limitations of biochemical pathways. Predictive genomic testing allows us to be smarter clinicians, ones who can offer our patients more effective, customized therapeutics with fewer unwanted side effects. Furthermore, these therapeutic gains are clearly measurable through follow-up functional laboratory testing.