Understand how you're aging - at every level.

Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) reads all 3 billion letters of your DNA - not just the ~600,000 spots a consumer chip checks. It's the difference between reading a book and reading 600 randomly chosen words from it.

What it reveals:

• Actionable disease variants - gene changes with established clinical management pathways (the ACMG list of actionable findings includes variants in BRCA1/2, Lynch syndrome genes, cardiomyopathy genes, and more).
• Pharmacogenomics - how your body metabolises common medications including statins, antidepressants, blood thinners, and pain medications.
• Polygenic risk scores - your relative risk for common chronic diseases (heart disease, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, several cancers).
• ApoE4 status - your specific Alzheimer's risk genotype.
• Carrier status - recessive conditions you could pass to children.

Sample: Saliva collected at the clinic. Turnaround: Approximately 8 weeks. Result: A clinician-led results session and a written report. Your raw data is yours to keep.

Important: Genetic risk is not destiny. A high polygenic score means higher than average lifetime risk, not certainty. The point of knowing is so you can act earlier and more precisely.

Your DNA letters don't change much over your lifetime. But the chemical tags sitting on top of your DNA - collectively called the epigenome - change constantly in response to diet, sleep, stress, exercise, environment, and disease. Reading these tags lets us estimate your biological age, which can be years younger or older than your chronological age.

What it measures: Patterns of DNA methylation at thousands of specific sites across the genome, interpreted by validated epigenetic clocks (Horvath, GrimAge, PhenoAge, DunedinPACE).

What you learn: Your biological age vs chronological age and the gap between them, your current pace of aging, and (when repeated over 6-12 months) whether lifestyle changes are actually moving your biology.

Sample: Saliva or blood. Turnaround: Approximately 8 weeks. We strongly recommend a baseline plus a repeat reading 6-12 months later to measure the effect of any interventions.

Your gut hosts roughly 100 trillion microorganisms - bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea - collectively called the gut microbiome. Their diversity, composition, and gene activity influence digestion, immunity, inflammation, mood, sleep, skin, hormones, and weight regulation.

Why shotgun, not 16S: 16S rRNA sequencing reads only one bacterial gene and identifies bacteria roughly to genus level, missing viruses and fungi entirely. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing reads every DNA fragment in your sample, identifies bacteria to species and often strain level, includes viruses, fungi, and archaea, and gives a functional readout of microbial genes and biochemical pathways.

What you learn: Microbial diversity score, over- or under-represented species, functional gene profile, markers of dysbiosis, inflammation, intestinal permeability, and personalised dietary insights.

Sample: At-home stool collection kit. No clinic visit needed for the sample itself. Turnaround: Approximately 8 weeks.

Each test reveals something the others cannot:

• Genome is your fixed blueprint - useful once, useful for life.
• Epigenome shows how your body is expressing that blueprint today, and is highly responsive to lifestyle.
• Microbiome is your "second genome" - the microbial layer that interacts with your food, your immune system, and your hormones.

You don't have to do all three at once. Many patients start with one - typically epigenetic for a current snapshot, or genome for a once-in-a-lifetime baseline - and add the others later as their goals evolve.