The Re:PAIR Clinic
Regenerative Medicine for Pain and Injury Rehabilitation
Epigenetic testing
Decoding your future risk
What are epigenetics?
Back in the early 2000s, scientists mapped the entire set of instructions that describe every aspect of our bodies - 'the human genome'. An incredible feat, but one that hasn't produced the revolution in tailored medicine we had initially hoped. If we can now find out what gene variants you carry, why can we not tell what is in your health future?
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All the ingredients
without a recipe
The end product of the genetic code is a complex and unique version of biology - you, both in health and disease. The genome in itself didn't let us get a good idea of what it meant for you. We had the ingredients, but not the recipe.
Think of the genome like a shopping list - eggs, milk, butter, etc. We're hoping to tell what kind of cake is at the end of the process, too many eggs and we risk making an omlette, too few and it'll crumble. This is akin to your future health risk. We need the recipe, the details of how much of each ingredient and when.
Enter epigenetics.
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Your personalised risk profile
Epigenetics studies the layers of switches that turn your genes on or off. Note that these switches can be set by external factors, such as exercise, smoking, nutrition and stress.
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This allows us at The Re:PAIR Clinic to give individualised assessment of how much your body is programmed to a certain type of biological state, or how much cumulative aging your cells have sustained. To return to the baking analogy, we can measure the ingredients and the recipe.
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Giving you back control
Optimising your future health
Notice how the switch of focus from the ingredients (genomics) to the recipe (multiomics) allows us to both:
- identify what genes are over- or underactive
- and the external factors that can affect that activity
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Evidence from the researchers at Harvard University and Partners Biobank have extensively studied these links to future health to give us a roadmap of how to maximise your individual future health.
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At Re:PAIR, we use TruDiagnostic testing to look at 35 epigenetic predictors of future disease, along with evidence-based interventions to optimise each of them.
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Measure, then modify your unique risk
At The Re:PAIR Clinic, we believe strongly in identifying any predisposition to disease and mitigating it ASAP through evidence-based approaches.
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That's why we use epigenetics as one of our approaches in establishing your best health future possible.
Let us focus on optimising quality of life.