Inside the report: nutrition

What your DNA actually says about food.

No banned-food lists and no 30-page diet plan. The nutrition section reads the replicated markers behind how you digest, absorb, and taste food, states each effect honestly, and links the study behind every card.

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What this part of the report reads

These are real findings from the report, not a menu of promises. Every card shows your genotype, states the effect honestly, and links the study it comes from.

MCM6/LCT

Lactose tolerance. Whether the milk-digesting enzyme stays switched on in adulthood, one of the most reliable findings in consumer genetics.

GC and others

Vitamin D and B12 levels. Baseline leans in blood levels of vitamin D and B12, useful context for testing instead of guessing.

MTHFR

Folate metabolism. What the internet’s favorite gene actually changes, and the much longer list of things it does not.

FADS1/FADS2

Omega-3 and omega-6 conversion. How efficiently you convert plant omega-3s into the forms your body uses, relevant if you eat little fish.

TAS2R38, FGF21, CD36

Taste and food pull. Bitter sensitivity, sweet preference, and fat-taste sensitivity: why some foods pull you harder than they pull other people.

HFE and others

Iron and ferritin. Leans in iron storage worth knowing before supplementing blind.

ADH1B/ALDH2

Alcohol response. How your body handles alcohol and acetaldehyde, including the flush reaction common in East Asian ancestry.

How it works

STEP 01

Download your raw file

From 23andMe, AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, Genotek, or any lab that exports VCF. Our raw file guide shows where to click.

STEP 02

Your browser reads it

The file never leaves your device. Only the small set of markers the report uses is sent to build your report.

STEP 03

Read it, then talk to it

Connect the report to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Whoop Coach and ask questions in plain language.

Then you just ask

Connect the report to your AI once, and questions sound like this:

YouBuild me a grocery list that works around my lactose and vitamin D results.
YouI am mostly plant-based. Given my omega-3 conversion markers, what should I actually watch?
YouDoes my MTHFR result change anything about how I should eat, honestly?
YouWhy do I never feel like sweets while my partner cannot stop? Could my taste genes explain it?

The honest part

Common variants are small leans, not verdicts. Genetics is one input next to sleep, training, diet, and stress. The report states effect sizes honestly instead of dressing leans up as destiny.
Every card links its study. Nothing in the report is invented for engagement. If a finding did not replicate in population research, it is not in there.
This is education, not medicine. The report does not diagnose anything, and clinical questions belong with a doctor.
The whole method is public. Sources, how several markers on one topic get combined, ancestry limits, and what we take out on purpose are written out in Methods and limits.

Questions people ask

Will this give me a diet plan?

No. It gives you the genetic facts worth knowing, lactose tolerance, vitamin leans, taste tendencies, and honest effect sizes for each. What you cook with that is up to you, or to the AI coach you connect.

Is MTHFR really a big deal?

Mostly no, and the report says so. The common variants nudge folate metabolism, and a folate-adequate diet already covers most of it. We wrote a whole article on the hype.

Do I have to upload my raw DNA file?

No. Your browser reads the file on your own device and sends only the small set of markers the report uses. The raw file itself is never uploaded or stored.

How much does it cost?

The analysis is free: drop your raw DNA file on helisoma.com and see real insights with no account. The full report is a one-time $49 payment with no subscription.

Also in the report

Nutrition is one section. The same report reads your sleep and caffeine profile and your training and muscle profile, plus stress, mood, and longevity markers.

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