Lately it has become fashionable to carry out DNA tests in order to know the origin of our genes, being a surprise in many cases. What athletes are mainly interested in is knowing if we are predisposed to certain injuries or if we can improve our physical capacity much more.
Without having to leave home or belong to the FBI, with 24Genetics you can take a simple test that you can buy at Amazon or in the company's own website.
How does 24Genetics work?
The test will arrive in a postal envelope, with all the material and instructions to perform the test correctly.
We will have to use the swab to make a smear inside the mouth, without touching the teeth or the tongue. He recommends that it be done for a minute, although we'd better make sure the swab has soaked up our DNA correctly. Then we put the stick in a tube and send the sample to the lab.
It is there where they extract our cells to extract the DNA and obtain up to 700.000 genetic data. We are not facing a medical test, so the data they provide us will be the result of comparing variables, probabilities and scientific studies. That is, they can point out that we are genetically prone to suffer from a pathology, but then this is not the case.
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What information does it provide?
Almost a month later you will have the results of your DNA test. They will give you information about the level of predisposition you have (compared to the rest of the population) to lose weight with sports, injuries or resistance exercises, among others.
To show that these are not fabricated results, scientific studies will be attached to you on which they have relied to make your report.
You can find out if your genetics help you stabilize cholesterol with sports, how is your recovery after training, if you have a predisposition to develop good lung capacity, if you tend to excel in certain sports or what are your chances of gaining strength muscular.
It also has a section for sports injuries, specifying overloads or injuries to ligaments and tendons.
After reading your report, it is possible that you are left with doubts, so the company puts at your disposal a 10-minute consultation with one of the biologists of the team.