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A garden that burns fat?

I did not even know there was one, but now I owe one

After 30 or so years of devoutly avoiding wheelbarrow, a genetic test has told me that I am an athletic potential, that carbs are really not my enemy (but coffee maybe is) and that I will always have to work really hard to burn fat.

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Strider Schleider Putschnik

Thursday, 21 January 2021, 07:52

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I was born to run, you know?

Woman wipes sweat from her forehead while running (Photo: ShutterStock)

The first discovery that shook me was that I did not have a fat-burning gene.

I mean, I did not fall to the floor in astonishment, but I certainly felt a deep disappointment.

This means that my body burns fat in an suboptimal way.

This means that in order to lose weight, I have to work harder, harder than someone who has this gene.

I felt it was really betraying my values, which have always advocated trying to work as hard as possible.

In weight loss, and in general.

You could say that my journey with the results of my genetic nutrition diagnosis started on my left foot.

Maybe because of my natural tendency to find the least good things first.

While this diagnosis was not included in the detailed report I received, it is something I have learned about myself on my own over the years.

First all the problems jumped to the fore: a high chance of regaining weight I lost, a higher-than-average tendency to feel full, a lack of a fat-burning gene and a slow breakdown of caffeine.

To tell me to drink less coffee is to start with my left leg.

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All of these revelations about my body came following a stick I had passed in my oral cavity two months earlier.

Between closures, a gene for a genetic diagnosis was sent to my home, which included a pen, a test tube, and several cards with instructions for opening an account on the MyBio website and for taking the sample and packing it.

She was then picked up by a courier and flown to a laboratory in Germany.

There they managed to turn my rock and DNA into a kind of map of nutritional and sporting potential. By the way, sporting potential - it turns out I have one like that. Who knew?

The kit includes a pen and a test tube for taking a DNA sample independently. Illustration of a woman taking a saliva sample (Photo: ShutterStock)

MyBio is a personal genetic diagnostic test.

Its purpose is to decipher information that lies in the personal genetic code of each and every one of us and pertains to mechanisms that affect health and weight.

Subjects receive at the end of the diagnostic process a detailed report on their genetic potential to deal with different food groups, nutritional components, their chance of gaining and losing weight and more.

Alongside them are also professional recommendations on the type of diet that is right for them, shortcomings that they may be more vulnerable to and also sports that can do them good.

It is not the only test in the market that offers this service, in recent years a number of companies have emerged that offer this service, including the Weizmann Institute's DayTwo.

Genetics is just the potential

Of course all this is just one part of the whole picture.

The genetics we are born with is the raw potential, and it is greatly influenced by environmental factors and lifestyle choices we make.

Therefore, the company recommends completing the receipt of the report with the guidance of a nutritionist, who takes the report and analyzes it along with the latest results of blood tests - which provide the current picture and with a nutritional questionnaire.

For this purpose, they recruited a team of over 30 professional nutritionists from all over the country, some of whom have specific specializations such as vegan nutrition, sports nutrition, nutrition for diabetics and the like.

Carbohydrates are companies too.

Varied foods rich in fiber (Photo: ShutterStock)

Although the report obtained is detailed and orderly and is also accompanied by graphic aids and explanations of each of the genetic traits examined in it, it will be difficult for a reasonable person to deduce from it precise action items.

Although there are things in the findings that are intuitive (for example: if the breakdown of caffeine in your body is not very effective, it is recommended to limit caffeine consumption to a minimum) and it even includes specific dietary recommendations based on individual findings, these are quite concise.

For those who are already investing the cost involved in this test (which cost about two thousand NIS) there is probably a good reason or real and deep interest in a way that their genetics can provide beneficial insights to their health or weight. The benefit is better and more thorough when receiving the guidance from the professional. A bit like reading a secret script without the key.

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What to do tomorrow morning?

This is exactly where the professional input that a nutritionist can provide is needed.

"Genetics do not change, so this diagnosis will be relevant for another 20 years. The only thing that changes is the body so we have included the second stage of blood tests and the nutrition questionnaire. The combined information allows the professional to give the 'what to do tomorrow morning' recommendations." Says Noa Lore Carmeli, CEO of MyBio.

Although the report gives a very detailed and reasoned picture of each parameter, says Lore Carmeli, but each parameter in it stands on its own. "Whoever does all the analysis of all the parameters together with the actual situation and knows how to perform analysis Of all the characteristics, she is only a professional, which is why we believe so much in this service and have created the national nutrition system. "And since the connection between nutrition and health is very close in some areas, test results may also shed new light on health issues." We do not undertake to solve health problems. "But the connection of all the sources of information together often succeeds in resolving a great many issues," she says.

You will both recognize yourself and be surprised

The encounter with the report has long given the reader quite a few familiar features.

You will probably encounter there things that you knew about yourself - whether consciously or not.

But he will also, in all likelihood, surprise you.

For example, I was surprised - that I had been careful all my life to avoid running in the thought that it was an activity that could lead to a high level of certainty of death due to my respiratory and cardiac failure, that I exerted supreme efforts all my years in school not to run High, high heart capacity, fast recovery - black on white and one after the other all the genetic counter-arguments to the story I told myself for 30 and a few years appeared.

Bye, darling.

Cold coffee (Photo: Giphy)

On the other hand, in the field of nutrition, apart from the red card I was given in the daily coffee cup cut, there were no definite things I should avoid.

Not even carbs.

According to Shira Solo, a clinical nutritionist, it may seem generic but it's actually quite unusual.

In most people the report finds abnormal responses (whether positive or negative) to different food groups.

While for me, almost everything goes.

This means that I do not have to avoid anything in particular, and can eat a balanced and varied diet.

In another person for this purpose the report may show abnormal sensitivity to animal fats, which will lead to the conclusion that a paleo diet or other diets that are low in carbohydrates but high in fat - do not suit him at all, or inefficient breakdown of carbohydrates, which will lead to a one-sided recommendation. Pizzas and breads.

"Traffic lights and warning signs"

Another thing that was nice to find out that the test diagnoses, is the existence or absence of what is called the 'warrior garden' that is responsible for our instinctive response to stressful situations - fight, flight or freeze.

It is not entirely related to your weight or your risk of high cholesterol, but it is related to wellbeing and how stress affects you.

There are those from whom stressful situations bring out the best and there are those whose stress paralyzes them or causes them to avoid.

According to Laur Carmeli, "The report is full of traffic lights and warning signs. These are things that need to be taken care of and vigilant from now on, like vitamins and minerals that must be taken care of, or a topic like bone density, or caffeine consumption. It was okay, from now on it should be taken into account. "

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