Your Genetics, Your Edge

Ready to discover how your personal genetic makeup can be used to your benefit.

Through the use of a single cheek swab test, Wellness Edge can unlock hidden variations that will give you the knowledge and understanding on how to truly optimize you wellness. Information on what supplements you actually need, how your body responds to stress, and much more. Below are a few samples of body processes and how your genetics can play a role.

What are we looking at?

Discover how your unique genetic makeup influences your health, vitality, and wellness potential. With the 3X4 Health screen, you’ll receive personalized insights into key biological pathways — from metabolism and hormone function to nutrient processing and recovery. Use this information to support smarter lifestyle, nutrition, and wellness choices tailored to your body.

Methylation

Genetic testing can help identify variations in genes involved in methylation pathways (such as MTHFR), which are key to detoxification, mood regulation, and cellular repair. By understanding these genetic predispositions, individuals can make lifestyle and dietary adjustments that support healthier methylation processes. These adjustments might include targeted nutrition, specific supplements, and mindfulness of environmental factors.

Oxidative Stress

Genetic testing can reveal variations in genes related to the body’s antioxidative systems, such as those encoding superoxide dismutase or glutathione enzymes, which play critical roles in neutralizing free radicals. By identifying these genetic variations, individuals can better understand their susceptibility to oxidative stress, a condition linked to cellular damage and accelerated aging. With this knowledge, people can make more informed choices—like emphasizing antioxidant-rich foods, managing stress levels, and optimizing exercise routines—to help mitigate oxidative stress.

Inflammation

Genetic testing can provide valuable insight into how an individual’s body processes nutrients, detoxifies, and regulates inflammation, allowing for highly personalized wellness strategies. By identifying variations in genes that influence inflammatory pathways, antioxidant capacity, or nutrient metabolism (such as methylation or vitamin D receptors), providers can recommend targeted interventions—like optimizing specific vitamins, minerals, or lifestyle habits—that help reduce chronic low-grade inflammation. This proactive, precision-based approach not only supports improved immune balance but also enhances energy, metabolic function, and long-term overall wellness.

Injury Tolerance

Genetic testing can reveal markers associated with exercise intolerance by identifying variations in genes that influence energy metabolism, mitochondrial function, oxygen utilization, and muscle fiber composition. For example, mutations in mitochondrial DNA or nuclear genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation may impair the body’s ability to efficiently produce ATP, leading to fatigue, muscle weakness, or poor endurance during physical activity. Variants in genes such as ACE, ACTN3, or those regulating lactate clearance can also predispose individuals to lower exercise capacity or slower recovery. By uncovering these genetic predispositions, testing can help explain why some people experience disproportionate fatigue or difficulty with physical exertion and guide personalized exercise and lifestyle recommendations.

Energy Expenditure

Genetic testing can provide insights into energy expenditure by identifying variations in genes that regulate metabolism, thermogenesis, and fuel utilization. For instance, polymorphisms in genes such as UCP1 and UCP3 (which influence mitochondrial uncoupling proteins) can affect how efficiently the body generates heat and burns calories, while variants in FTO, PPARG, or ADRB2 may alter fat storage, resting metabolic rate, or responsiveness to exercise and diet. These genetic factors contribute to individual differences in how many calories are burned at rest versus during activity, helping explain why some people may naturally have a higher or lower metabolic rate. By revealing these patterns, genetic testing can inform personalized nutrition and fitness strategies to optimize weight management and overall energy balance.

Discover more about the following body functions:

Collagen & joints

Glucose & insulin

Memory & brain health

Bone health

Mood & behavior

Hormone balance

Histamine overload

Vascular health

Blood pressure

Blood clotting

Cholesterol

Pro-inflammatory fat

Adipogenesis

Weight gain & weight loss

Exercise response

Energy expenditure

Appetite/Satiety

Injury

Activity Endurance/Recovery/Power

Training response

Vitamin B12

Choline

Folate

Salt

Vitamin D

Caffeine

Fatty acids

Vitamin C

Gluten

Iron overload

At Wellness Edge, we believe that deep, data-driven insight is essential to providing exceptional care. That’s why comprehensive lab testing is one of the cornerstones of our approach. We go far beyond standard panels to uncover what’s truly happening inside your body to help us design a treatment plan that is as unique as you are.

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