Precision Medicine: Combat obesity with data-driven medicine.
Embrace Health helps unlock your personalized weight loss journey with DNA insights. Discover why you struggle with weight and what solutions work best for you.
With DNA testing, you can understand and harness your biology to achieve lasting results.
There is no need to guess anymore, with DNA testing we help predict your response to weight loss interventions.
At Embrace Health, we take care of everything from your online evaluation to discreet delivery and free ongoing care. Here’s how it works:
1. Quick Saliva Test
Collect your DNA sample with our easy-to-use kit from the comfort of your home.
2. Get Your Results
In just 4-6 weeks, receive your personalized report detailing the factors driving your weight challenges.
3. Achieve Better Results
Follow science-backed, tailored recommendations for diet, activity, and medication.
Why do phenotypes matter for weight loss?
Understanding your obesity phenotype helps pinpoint what drives your weight gain and limits your ability to lose weight. A phenotype is the underpinning of your obesity; and now, we can identify it with a simple saliva test.
A phenotype is an individual's observable traits, such as height, eye color, hair color, weight, and blood type. The genetic code that contributes to the phenotype is called the genotype.
Some traits are largely determined by the genotype, while other traits are largely determined by environmental factors. Some traits include variations embedded in the genetic code which can predispose certain individuals to higher risk of disease development, such as obesity.
What is the benefit?
Phenotyping classifies your type of obesity based on specific biological mechanisms. Understanding which of the four phenotypes you have pinpoints what is driving your weight gain and limiting your ability to lose weight. Using weight-loss solutions specific to your phenotype and genetic makeup can double your weight loss compared to conventional methods.
The Four Obesity Types
Our test, developed with the Mayo Clinic, pinpoints your obesity type for effective, personalized weight loss solutions.
Hungry Brain
Are you unable to feel full during a meal?
Satiation is the feeling of fullness and satisfaction that tells the brain when it’s time to stop eating. With a hungry brain, the brain is unable to determine when a meal is over, resulting in increased food consumption during a meal.
Satiation-related genes and/or low levels of certain metabolites predict the hungry rainobesity phenotype.
Your weight loss intervention will stimulate hormones that relay fullness, which is shown to decrease food intake and body weight among individuals with this dominant phenotype.
Hungry Gut
Do you frequently get hungry in between meals?
Satiety is the sense of feeling full during and after a meal. With a hungry gut, individuals often feel full during a meal, but themselves hungry shortly after eating. This is caused by the stomach moving the food out of the stomach faster than other phenotypes.
When you and your physician nderstand the root cause, "multi-omics", of your obesitythen your physician will provide precision-based therapy targeting this specific phenotype.
Knowing when to eat, what to eat, and other complementary therapies to upportweight loss makes for all the difference in the world.
Emotional Hunger
Do you eat to feel better or relieve stress?
Seeking food as a reaction to negative or positive emotions, or as a coping mechanism, can be defined as emotional hunger. Emotional hunger has been characterized by high levels of cravings, anxiety, and depression.
Presence of certain gene variants and/or high levels of certain metabolites may be used to predict the emotional hunger obesity phenotype.
Specific interventions such as cognitive therapy and medications that address some of the underlying emotions or psychological conditions may be helpful and lead to weight loss for patients with this dominant phenotype.
Slow Burn
Do you have a slow metabolism?
With this phenotype, an individual’s rate of metabolism is lower than normal. This is also known as abnormal energy expenditure. The slow burn phenotype has been characterized clinically by low muscle mass and abnormal metabolic rate.
Presence of certain gene variants and/or low levels of certain metabolites may be used to predict the slow burn phenotype.
Committing to specific physical activity interventions may prove to be the most effective weight loss strategy for patients presenting with a dominant slow burn obesity phenotype.
Why Our Approach Works
At Embrace Health, we understand that no two people are the same. That’s why our approach to weight loss is driven by your unique biology. By identifying the root causes of your weight challenges, we provide tailored strategies proven to deliver better and longer-lasting results.
Grounded in Research, Proven by Results
Our approach is validated by leading research institutions, including the Mayo Clinic. By analyzing your DNA, we pinpoint the biological mechanisms driving your weight challenges. This precision allows us to recommend solutions proven to help nearly 80% of participants achieve significant weight loss.
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