Type of nutrition & chronic disease management companies that are not honest with you

When it comes to science based personalised companies, there are a number of companies & brands floating in the market claiming to offer nutrition & disease management solutions based on your body type, some A/B testing type questionnaires, investigating your blood samples( mostly HB1ac)  &/ or your DNA that can improve your health. The fact of the matter is these companies fall short of evaluating what is causing diseases to happen & just promise limited personalised options based on some open book literature &/or provide generic dietary recommendations that do not add up.

Let us discuss each of these fad diet companies in detail.

Online Fitness companies

Let us start with plain vanilla online fitness companies.These will provide you standard dietary recommendations covering various fad diets such as Ketosis, Paleo, low carbs, Atkins & Quantified Nutrition /calorie deficit. AND why not people should subscribe to these since it has worked for a number of celebrities right?

People are making the biggest blunder by signing up with these companies. These companies assume that a particular diet works for everyone- In other words they follow a standard solution fits all dietary routines. They have forgotten that every individual is unique & has a unique set of microbiomes- depending upon how they are born, how they are fed as an infant, their environment, their lifestyle choices, their stress levels & their exercise schedules. As such these companies cannot determine what is released in our bloodstream when we( our microbes) digest the food. In other words, they cannot tell if a particular food is releasing toxins or nutrients in your bloodstream. Therefore such standard dietary recommendations may cure obesity but will open up the door for other health issues- such as digestive troubles, mental health issues, low energy, fatigue, bloating, constipation & even acid reflux. 

Individual meal plan companies 

Meal preparation companies are another bunch of folks making fools of people who are looking for the right diet to manage their health. They fall short of delivering personalised dietary recommendations that you( your microbes) are craving for & a lot of it has to do with hidden sugar & if not sugar, preservatives & sodium content in the food. Even with freshly frozen or personalised plans, these companies fail to take into account unique differences in each person. Probably, these folks do not even know how the digestion process works & who(which microbes) metabolises the food we eat.

Chronic Disease Management Companies

A number of chronic disease management companies are flourishing but they are nothing more than managing your symptoms since they look at your urine & blood biomarkers to provide your so-called personalised dietary recommendations. The fact of the matter is this blood/urine biomarker only tells you after the effect of biological function & cannot determine whether your body is getting toxins or nutrients when the food you eat is metabolised.

 For instance, if you eat a wholesome meal, it will only tell you the quantum of the spike in sugar level. It cannot tell you which particular food is causing inflammation & sugar level spike & how can you reduce/eliminate inflammation. Infact, such recommendations are black boxes which can cause body wide inflammation & over activate your immune system, the starting point of all chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, acid reflux, IBD, crohn’s diseases, ulcerative colitis. 

Given the fact that every individual is unique, how you respond to a whole wheat bread would be quite different from how your colleague responds to it. For you, sprouts may give you a high sugar spike as compared to watermelon while for your colleague it may be the other way round.

DNA based nutrition companies

A new category has picked up – DNA based nutrition companies which can tell a lot about yourself & your ancestry & can also help in determining your risk of attracting particular diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cancer, colon cancer & breast cancer( to name a few). DNA testing is, no doubt, good to learn about our health. However, if you have a gene that makes you predisposed to a particular disease does not mean you will develop that disease. If you have that gene but it is not actively expressed, you are not going to develop that disease. Instead, a DNA company claiming that by decoding your DNA they can provide your personalised meal recommendations that can overcome diseases is not at all accurate. You may feel awesome in the first year but terrible next year( since it has not taken into account human & microbial gene expression) still they will provide you with the same dietary choices given the fact that your DNA never changes. Your health or susceptibility of attracting a particular disease depends upon which genes( both human & microbial) are being expressed & how they are being expressed & what is being produced.

How is Genefitletics different?

This is where we come into picture.We at Genefitletics, focus on hacking & digitizing your body by sequencing & analysing  your RNA- human & microbial genes expression to  determine which foods are causing inflammation/releasing toxins & which ones are producing nutrients in your bloodstream. We assess microbial activities taking place inside your body at molecular level to determine how microbes in your gut interact with the food you eat & provide your dietary recommendations- foods that can reduce inflammation /release of toxic gases & food which can spur body wide inflammation. In order words, we map your digestive enzymes & peptides & molecules with the chemicals in the various foods to learn which foods you should consume frequently & which ones you should avoid.

There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all diet. A food may be healthy but it does not mean it will be healthy for you. For instance, Spinach may be great for your spouse but for you it may cause inflammation .

We each have our own internal and biological fingerprint. Instead of wasting any more time on what other people say work for them, invest in what works for you.

Sign up for our UP THE GUT intelligence solution to learn what microbes in your gut are trying to tell you & determine which foods you should consume more frequently & which foods you should minimise & avoid. More details here:  www.genefitletics.com