| The human genome project ended in 2003, when the | | | | anybody else. |
| human genetic make-up was finally determined. There | | | | In fact, the treatment is so successful that it is the |
| followed a number of products claimed to be | | | | first skin care program based upon DNA analysis to |
| formulated to maintain your genetic health, yet there | | | | be provided with a patent, which is an indication of its |
| is no such thing in reality as 'genetic health'. None of | | | | effectiveness. A skin care product that is formulated |
| these products were formulated according to the | | | | according to the genetic architecture of the individual |
| individual's genetic structure, and the same product | | | | is mind blowing enough, but how about health |
| was offered to everyone. | | | | supplements that are based on similar principles? |
| However, there were individuals and groups of | | | | No more exactly the same supplement for |
| scientists that carried out research on how the | | | | everybody. No more wandering round the health |
| effectiveness of certain products, related to health | | | | shop shelves trying to figure out which of these |
| care and pharmaceuticals, could be improved through | | | | myriad bottles and tubs are best for you. With such |
| being formulated to suit individual genetic architecture. | | | | scientifically designed health products you need have |
| One of these groups looked initially at how skin care | | | | no choice to make. A simple DNA sample and you will |
| products could be used to help reduce the effects of | | | | be provided with the product that not only best suits |
| aging by being tailor-made to suit individual genetic | | | | your body's needs, but also designed to take |
| structure, and hence targeted to the individual rather | | | | advantage of the way your DNA is programmed to |
| than to the general condition. | | | | handle it. |
| This group, later to become the founders of a | | | | There is a precise relationship between the way your |
| company known as GeneLink, was composed of a | | | | body absorbs organic and inorganic nutrients, and the |
| group of eminent and highly respected scientists | | | | way in which they are used by your biochemistry. If |
| from the fields of genetics, chemistry, medicine, | | | | molecular biochemistry can be used to determine this |
| biochemistry, molecular biology and the nutritional | | | | relationship through your genetic architecture, then it |
| sciences, all with distinguished academic and industrial | | | | should be possible to develop a form of nutrition that |
| careers with hundreds of published works and | | | | has been formulated specifically for you, and nobody |
| patents. | | | | else. |
| They had seen what others did not: that it was not | | | | This being the case, then it is logical that such health |
| only possible for individual medical and health | | | | products must be optimized for your own |
| conditions to be connected with the genetic structure | | | | biochemistry; they will have more positive effects on |
| of the individual (which was well known by that | | | | your health than any off the shelf product. Such |
| time), but that the way the body reacted to | | | | products can take several forms: skin creams, vitamin |
| treatment for these conditions could also be related | | | | and mineral supplements, mixtures of phytochemicals |
| to genetics. | | | | or even pharmaceuticals and antibiotics designed to |
| The arrangement of genes within each individual could | | | | help your immune system fight off bacterial attack. |
| be what is responsible for a specific pharmaceutical | | | | The potential for such products is enormous, but |
| effectively curing one patient, yet have no effect, or | | | | what is available right now that could be of use to |
| even being fatal to, another. Why does one person | | | | you? |
| age quicker than another; their skin drying up and | | | | Research is currently under way on how to design |
| wrinkling while that of their neighbor remains smooth | | | | products to combat such health problems as |
| and supple? Why is that some people can be | | | | oxidative stress, as caused by free radicals in the |
| successfully treated with one product yet the | | | | body, cardiovascular problems, high LDL cholesterol |
| immune system of another rejects it? | | | | levels, Alzheimer's disease and dementia, and many |
| The group investigated these questions, using many | | | | others. For the moment is possible to acquire general |
| of the findings of the Genome Project, and | | | | health supplements and skin treatments that are |
| eventually came up with a skin care product that | | | | customized to your genetic make-up. |
| was formulated for each person individually, based | | | | The science of such supplements will be improved |
| upon their DNA. All the tests carried out on this | | | | rapidly, as more become known about them, and |
| product indicated its effectiveness, not on the | | | | extended to some of the research projects referred |
| population as a whole, but for those people for | | | | to above. However, it is currently possible for you to |
| whom the individual products had been formulated. | | | | maximum the effect of the supplements you take |
| That program is now use extensively, and is widely | | | | by use of these products by providing a DNA swab |
| recommended by many skin care specialists. It is not | | | | from the inside of your cheeks, and receiving a |
| a specific product, but a program based upon | | | | product formulated specifically to your personal |
| samples of your DNA and genetic structure that | | | | genetic structure. |
| enables a bespoke product to be provided specifically | | | | You only have to find the company that provides |
| for you, and that would be less effective for | | | | these genetic health supplements. |