Why read your DNA, really
Your genome is the one variable that never changes — test it once and it informs every decision afterwards. DNA Health does not predict your future; it reads the common functional variants that shape how you process folate, clear oestrogen and catecholamines, neutralise oxidative stress, handle caffeine and manage lipids. The point is not the letter you carry, but what it tells us to do differently with your nutrition. That is nutrigenomics: the same diet can help one genotype and harm another (Cornelis et al., 2006).
What DNA Health reveals
A single cheek swab reads a curated panel of functional SNPs — the common variants that influence how your body uses nutrients, clears compounds and defends against oxidative stress. Because your genotype is fixed for life, this is the one test you never repeat.
SNP panel across 7 core pathways · one cheek swab · tested once for life
Every result is reviewed twice over
A lab number on its own changes nothing. What matters is who reads it — and your results pass through two layers of expertise before they ever shape your protocol.
Alessandra Ginsburg
IFM-certified Functional Nutrition PractitionerAlessandra interprets every marker against your full clinical picture — your symptoms, history, lifestyle and goals — not against a generic reference range. She is the one who turns raw lab data into the specific, personalised actions in your protocol, and who decides when a finding warrants medical evaluation and a referral to a physician.
Nordic Laboratories
Specialist functional-medicine laboratory · since 1997 · 100+ countriesYour sample is processed by Nordic Laboratories, a specialist functional-medicine lab operating since 1997 across more than 100 countries. Their scientific team runs the validated PCR and metabolomic assays under strict quality control, so the data Alessandra works from is accurate, reproducible and clinically meaningful.
Simple by design
Cheek swab · taken at home or in-clinic
Where this test looks
DNA Health is not one risk score — it reads several connected biological pathways at once, then translates each into a concrete nutritional lever. These are the layers it decodes.
How DNA Health helps
Because your genotype touches nutrient metabolism, hormones, detoxification and oxidative stress, one swab reaches across many goals. Here is where its findings most often shape the plan.
More than a test
A lab result you can’t act on is just paper. Every functional test at FunctionAlps comes wrapped in the analysis, the human explanation and the plan that turn it into change.
The test
A clinically validated functional lab test, with the collection kit sent to your door.
Specialist analysis
Your sample is processed by the laboratory and returned as a full functional report.
A results call with our nutritionist
Alessandra walks you through every finding in plain language — what it means, and what it doesn’t.
Your recommendations, in the report
Written, personalised recommendations tied directly to your results — yours to keep.
A personalised plan
Foods to favour and avoid, the app to track it, tips to try, and protocols sequenced to you.
Targeted supplements
Practitioner-grade supplements matched precisely to what your results reveal.
Pre / pro / postbiotics — if needed
When the findings call for it, targeted biotics to rebalance and rebuild your flora.
Your DNA is the operating system you were born with. Some of its settings make you naturally good at certain things and less good at others, like clearing toxins, processing folate, or managing inflammation. DNA Health reads the settings that matter most for everyday wellbeing and tells us where your body needs more support, where it is already efficient, and where you should be a little more careful.
Cheek swab, painless, two minutes
None required
Three to four weeks · one-time, valid for life
Your results live in the FunctionAlps app
Findings do not sit in a PDF you never open again. They flow into your app, where your protocol, your daily tracking and your wearable data line up against what the test actually found.
- ✦Your protocol, built directly from the results
- ✦Track symptoms, food and energy against the markers that matter
- ✦Wearable and app data fine-tune the plan as you go
- ✦Re-test when it counts and watch the trend, not a single snapshot
Grounded in the research
Every claim on this page is anchored in published, peer-reviewed science. The studies behind it:
References ground the science of each marker — they describe the biology and published outcomes, not a guarantee of individual results.
Functional testing at FunctionAlps is used to guide nutritional optimisation within ASCA and EMR scope. It is not a medical diagnostic tool. When findings warrant medical evaluation, we coordinate with a referring physician.