Can Fitness Be Genetic?

Let your genes be the guide to your fitness by a Lifetime Genetic Test!

“Easy ways for weight loss”, “How to lose weight?”, “Weight loss Diet” are some of the questions that people Google, when they see or realize that they do not fit in the ‘FIT’ criteria that social media has created for everyone. Are you medically fit or Instagram fit? But, how does someone define being fit? Is it to get into a standard size and weight? Who decides these standards? Some people think that being fit is getting into small-sized clothes, and others think it is about gaining muscles.

The criteria of being FIT can vary from person to person. In the same way, methods to achieve fitness also vary. Some may acquire it by extreme dieting, or some may gym hard. Some can simply do cardio, and others may practice intermittent fasting. An individual is different from another individual, as per their genetic makeup. Genes, made up of Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA, are the templates that make protein for the body’s better functioning. We inherit each copy of genes from our parents, and both internal and external environments impact expressions of these genes. Our genes can behave as biological markers revealing a predisposition or inclination towards a particular disease, behaviour, physical, or physiological trait. Epigenetics is one such process that influences turning genes on and off. Manifestation of certain conditions like obesity depends on your genetic predisposition, environmental factors, and your adapted lifestyle. Our gene’s instruction makes them express differently in each individual. These instructions can be influenced by food and nutrition, exercise, sleep cycles, stress and relationships, and many other environmental factors. For example, some people can go through a vigorous exercise regime and different diets, it may work for some time, but they soon regain the lost weight after a short time. Perhaps, we are doing the right exercises according to us, but it does not necessarily deem ‘fit’ according to our genes.

Genes2Fit, a personalized and once-in-a-lifetime DNA test offered by Genes2Me, analyzes how your genes impact your fitness by analyzing different lifestyle factors related to your fitness, obesity, diet patterns, eating behaviour, and many more. These lifestyle-associated genes can tell you the possibility of getting a trait or condition in your lifetime. The conditions covered in the panel include:

Diet Pattern: Diet is the key player in achieving desired health and fitness. If you know how your body will attain maximum benefit with what kind of diet it deserves, it will cross significant hurdles in your road to fitness. The diet pattern in the panel covers factors including your body’s response to monosaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids, the type of diet; whether rich in carbohydrates (carb-efficient or not), or whether your body benefits from adherence to low carbs and many more.
Eating Behaviour: Who doesn’t love to binge eat, while watching your favourite series, or while catching up with friends and family? Our eating behaviours significantly affect our body. Secondly, when it is in your genes that you are likely to have a specific type of behaviour, then it is the endgame of all your hard work you put into exercising. In this test, behaviours like snacking, sweet tooth, hunger, satiety, and so on are covered, which can help you understand yourself better as to why you crave something sweet in the middle of the night, or why you are always famished.
Food Reactions: Caffeine is the answer to all our stress! We wake up, and we want our coffee or tea. How do we complete our piles of workloads? With the help of caffeine! How do we stay up the whole night just before an exam? Caffeine! But, can your body handle Caffeine? Can it metabolize caffeine properly? More caffeine consumption can cause toxicity, leading to severe health effects. This panel analyses your genes that influence your caffeine consumption and metabolism, and tells if you are likely to have lactose intolerance, nicotine dependency, alcohol dependency, and many more.
Nutritional Needs: Our body has its own need for micronutrients and minerals, which will help your body, function normally. Vitamins are one such compound that is required in moderate amounts by your body. But, if you are genetically predisposed to having low vitamin levels and not taking enough vitamins, it can lead to health issues. Your genetic predispositions to the different types of vitamins levels are covered in nutritional needs.
Metabolic Health Factors: Your metabolism is what makes your body function by processing all the types of food you consume. Your genes play a part in how your body processes your food, and whether you will tend to have decreased HDL cholesterol, elevated triglycerides, elevated blood sugar levels, and many more. Knowing your risk to metabolic health factors can make you aware of how you should customize your lifestyle.
Body and Weight: Both gaining and losing weight is a difficult task. Many are frustrated that they keep gaining weight, and others, because they cannot gain weight. Some genes are related to obesity and the metabolism rate, if you are likely to regain the weight you lost after intense exercise and dieting. First, know your body affinity for weight gain or loss according to your genes; then, you can divert some time customizing your exercise and diet regime, which will benefit you more.
Exercise: Are you running or lifting hard, but it does not show results? Or, is it just plain tiring for you. Exercise is very subjective from person to person. Some can do endurance training and get fit, but others may not achieve so by doing the same thing. If your body is not suited for a specific exercise type, then even if you are trying your best, it will not be beneficial. First, it is vital to know how your genes influence the way your body benefits from strength training, endurance training, weight loss response to exercise, and many more.

Once in a lifetime, personal profiling of your genetic insights will make you understand your uniqueness to customize your wellness plans. Benefits of this test include:

You know the predisposition of 40+ lifestyle traits that may directly or indirectly hamper your fitness and health.
It can help you find answers to questions like, “Why can’t I lose weight despite so much exercise?” “Why can’t I stop snacking?” “Why do I crave sweets so much?”, and many more such questions.
It gives you a better insight into your own body, and how you can maintain it by keeping your genetic tendencies in mind.
It boosts your immunity, mental, and physical performance.

A genetic test can reveal so much about your tomorrow, today, and help you not only plan a healthy weight, but a healthier life ahead. It is powerful enough even to predict the probability of any diseases that you might be prone to.

Genes2Me in India is one of the leading genetic diagnostic labs. Genes2Me creates a benchmark in the diagnostics space by providing complete solutions not only under primary diagnostics, but regular as well as advanced molecular diagnostics too, thereby becoming a partner in life with a translational approach combined with a mission to serve the masses even in resource-limited areas across the globe. Genes2Me provides genetic tests for personalized health, mother and child, oncology, and other diagnostics covering almost every facet of the diagnostics space to predict a healthy future starting today.

You can’t change your genes, but you can change your lifestyle to suit your genetic makeup!

Disclaimer: Genes2Fit is a predictive genetic test that gives you a risk depending on your genetic predisposition for a particular condition. This is not a diagnostic test, and does not tell you about your present condition. The results obtained from this test help understand how lifestyle and genetic predisposition leads to the manifestation of disease/condition, according to which you can modify your lifestyle to better your health. This test does not intend to make a sudden change in your diet, exercise pattern, and overall lifestyle without consulting any healthcare professional.

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