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So you have heard of these guys who will take your DNA and give you a diet based and customized to YOUR specific DNA?
How cool is that ... well its cool until somebody tests you on it
To all those who have thought about doing “DNA testing” for individual vitamin supplements, read on!
Staff members of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) submitted DNA samples to four Web sites that offered testing.
The investigators submitted 12 samples taken from a cheek swab of a 9-month-old female and two from an unrelated 48-year-old man but described the specimens as coming from adults of various ages and lifestyle descriptions.
Three of the sites made different recommendations for nine of the infant’s samples.
Since the DNA of these samples was identical, this showed that these recommendations were not actually based on the sender’s “unique genetic profile” as advertised.
Two of the sites recommended “personalized” supplement regimens that, in addition to being senseless, cost more than 30 times as much as comparable products available at retail outlets.
Experts who reviewed the test reports concluded that they made predictions that were medically unproven, ambiguous, and provided no meaningful information for consumers.” to read the GAO report.
How cool is that ... well its cool until somebody tests you on it
To all those who have thought about doing “DNA testing” for individual vitamin supplements, read on!
Staff members of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) submitted DNA samples to four Web sites that offered testing.
The investigators submitted 12 samples taken from a cheek swab of a 9-month-old female and two from an unrelated 48-year-old man but described the specimens as coming from adults of various ages and lifestyle descriptions.
Three of the sites made different recommendations for nine of the infant’s samples.
Since the DNA of these samples was identical, this showed that these recommendations were not actually based on the sender’s “unique genetic profile” as advertised.
Two of the sites recommended “personalized” supplement regimens that, in addition to being senseless, cost more than 30 times as much as comparable products available at retail outlets.
Experts who reviewed the test reports concluded that they made predictions that were medically unproven, ambiguous, and provided no meaningful information for consumers.” to read the GAO report.
