What is a Gene?

A gene is a small part of your DNA that tells your body how to grow, heal, and function. Genes control everything from how your cells repair to how your metabolism and immunity work. Together, your genes create the complete blueprint of your health.

Genetic data varies from person to person, influencing everything from performance potential to inherited traits. To explore how your unique genetics are analysed across different areas, select a test below to learn the science behind about each one.

 
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Sports Performance

 

Carrier Screening

 
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Comprehensive Genomic

 

Newborn Screening

What Do Genes Tell Us

Your genes are like your body’s instruction code. They reveal how your body processes nutrients, adapts to stress, balances hormones and responds to exercise and sleep.

By analysing your genes, we can uncover patterns that explain how your body functions and what it needs to thrive. Gaining these insights helps you make informed choices that support your overall balance and vitality.

What You Can Learn from Your Genes

How Your Body Processes Nutrients

Your genes influence how efficiently your body absorbs and uses nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and proteins. These variations affect enzyme activity and nutrient transport, shaping how your body converts food into energy.

By analysing these genetic patterns, we identify where additional nutritional support may be beneficial and which areas are naturally optimised, helping refine dietary choices with greater precision.

Your Metabolism and Energy Efficiency

Your genetic profile shows how your body converts food into usable energy. Variations in genes involved in mitochondrial function and nutrient breakdown influence how efficiently you produce and use energy throughout the day.

By analysing these pathways, we identify whether your body naturally tends toward faster or slower energy utilisation, offering insight into performance capacity, recovery patterns, and endurance potential.

Your Risk Factors for Certain Health Conditions

Your genetic data can indicate variations linked to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, inflammation, or lipid imbalance. These markers help identify areas where your biology may need additional monitoring or support.

By analysing these risk factors early, our reports provide the foundation for preventive strategies and precise lifestyle adjustments that help maintain optimal biological balance over time.

How Your Body Handles Stress and Inflammation

Your genes influence how your body reacts to stress, manages cortisol levels, and repairs after exposure to physical or emotional strain. Certain variations can make some people more sensitive to stress or slower to recover from inflammation.

By identifying these genetic markers, our analysis highlights how your body regulates immune and inflammatory responses, offering insights that support recovery, resilience, and balanced physiological function.

Your Hormonal and Sleep Patterns

Your genes play a role in regulating hormones that control sleep cycles, energy levels, and overall rhythm. Variations in melatonin, cortisol, and circadian genes can influence how easily you fall asleep, how rested you feel, and how your body adapts to daily changes.

By examining these genetic pathways, our analysis provides insight into your natural biological rhythm and how to align your lifestyle for improved rest, focus, and recovery.

Your Cellular Repair and Ageing Mechanisms

Your genes influence how effectively your cells repair DNA damage, maintain telomere length, and sustain healthy function over time. Variations in these pathways affect how quickly your cells renew and how resilient they remain under stress.

By analysing these ageing-related mechanisms, our reports highlight opportunities to strengthen cellular maintenance, delay biological ageing, and support long-term vitality at the molecular level.

Your Detoxification and Antioxidant Capacity

Your genes determine how efficiently your body neutralises toxins, processes environmental compounds, and defends against oxidative stress. Variations in these pathways can influence how well your liver enzymes and antioxidant systems function.

Through this analysis, you can identify how your detoxification capacity operates at the molecular level and where additional nutritional or lifestyle support may enhance cellular protection and recovery.

Your Mental Health and Cognitive Function Tendencies

Your genetic makeup influences how neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin are produced and regulated, affecting focus, emotional stability, and stress response. These variations help explain differences in mood balance, attention, and cognitive flexibility.

By analysing these pathways, our reports reveal how your brain processes information and adapts to stress, guiding strategies that enhance focus, resilience, and performance.

Your Genetic Resilience and Longevity Potential

Your genes influence how your body maintains stability, repairs damage, and adapts with age. Variations in these pathways affect how efficiently your cells recover from stress and sustain long-term function.

By examining these genetic indicators, our analysis uncovers how your biology supports resilience and longevity, offering a deeper view of the mechanisms that drive healthy ageing.

Why knowing your gene is


important for Longevity


Understanding your genes helps you take control of your health early.

Many biological imbalances begin developing long before any signs appear. By learning how your genes influence key functions, you can create a personalised approach to nutrition, activity, and prevention that strengthens your body’s natural systems and supports long-term vitality.

What Genetic Testing Can Help With

Prevent Heart and Cardiovascular Conditions

Genetic testing can show if you are more likely to develop heart disease, high cholesterol, or blood pressure issues, allowing you to take early steps to protect your heart health.

Reduce the Risk of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders

Your genes influence how your body stores fat and regulates metabolism. Knowing this helps you personalise your diet and exercise to maintain a healthy weight.

Identify Cancer Predispositions Early

Certain genetic markers can signal higher risks for cancers such as breast, ovarian, or colon cancer. Early awareness supports regular screening and prevention.

Support Hormonal and Reproductive Health

Genetic insights can reveal imbalances that affect fertility, hormone regulation, and reproductive wellbeing, helping you make informed health decisions.

Prevent Lifestyle-Linked Chronic Diseases

Understanding your genes helps you address factors that contribute to diabetes, inflammation, and other long-term health conditions before they appear.

Good news!


With the most advanced technology in human history, Whole Genome Sequencing, we are now closer than ever to understanding what makes each of us unique.


By analysing your complete genome, we reveal the biological patterns that define how your body functions and adapts over time.

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Whole Genome Sequencing, as its name suggests, is a scientific method that allows us to read and analyse your entire genetic code.

Every cell in your body contains DNA, which acts like an instruction manual for how your body works. This technology looks at all three billion letters of that manual, not just small parts of it.

By sequencing the whole genome, we can see every piece of genetic information that makes you who you are, helping us understand health, traits, and potential risks in a much deeper and more complete way.

Differences between Traditional Gene Analysis and Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)

In Partnership with the Leaders of Genomic Science

At Phenome Longevity, every genetic test from our Comprehensive Genomic Test to our Carrier Screening Test is built on the latest sequencing technology. We have partnered with Illumina, a global leader in genomics, to bring you precise, reliable, and cutting-edge Whole Genome Sequencing.

This collaboration ensures that every result you receive reflects the highest scientific standards, helping you make informed decisions about your health and longevity with complete confidence.

How Our Test Kits Work

Step 01

Order a test and activate your kit

 

Step 02

Send your samples to our labs

 

Step 03

Collect your sample

 

Step 04

Get your results & consult our counsellor

 

Explore how each genetic test reveals a different part of your biology

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Comprehensive Genomic Explained

Carrier Screening Explained

Sports Performance Explained

Newborn Screening Explained