Your history in the palm of your hand or on your tabletop! Learn what your ancestors ate and how it impacts you.
A window into the past making sense of the present. Open it, and gain insight into why you are who you are.
Personal insights right your fingertips. Find out where you are on the spectrum of traits related to how you ingest, digest, and utilize, the nutrients in the food you eat.
Why do you and your friends differ in how you respond to what you eat and drink? The Metabolism Insight helps you understand.
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Great Gift For: The friend who’s curious about nutrition and loves history
What to Expect: iPhone app & website, stories about your genetic results
Value: You can blame the way you eat, drink, and metabolize food on your ancestors at your next dinner party
Great Gift For: The friend who’s curious about nutrition and loves history
What to Expect: iPhone app & website, stories about your genetic results
Value: You can blame the way you eat, drink, and metabolize food on your ancestors at your next dinner party
Connect your metabolism to your ancestors
A window into the past making sense of the present. Open it, and gain insight into why you are who you are.
Detailed personal insights
Find out where you are on the spectrum of traits related to how you digest the food you eat.
Uncover more about yourself
Discover why you and your friends differ in how you respond to what you eat and drink.
Learn the history of your metabolic traits
The story of why you eat what you eat is the tale of the last 10,000 years. It’s not just a history of you, but of us all.
You are unique, the product of thousands of generations of striving and success, of hardship and adaptation, of migration and mysterious ancient trysts. Your genome contains this epic, human saga. Insitome will reveal this story to you, chapter by chapter.
This chapter, Metabolism, focuses on how your diet and the way you process food is shaped by your ancestors and the decisions they made to survive. It is based on the latest research, using data from both modern and ancient DNA samples. Metabolism leads you through your story step-by-step with visual aids to help you piece together this fascinating chapter in the incredible story of you. And better yet, you can experience your story on any of your favorite devices.
Each future chapter will reveal details about 200,000+ years of human evolution that made you, you.
For thousands of years, humans were hunters and gatherers. About 10,000 years ago, some of our ancestors settled down to farm, and that cultural shift had a lasting impact on our genetic code. The results might surprise you. Did you get your ability to drink more coffee from an ancient hunting ancestor? What about your ability to digest the sugar in milk, or to tolerate a low-carb diet?
With Insitome’s Metabolism Insight, you’ll discover traits that you may have inherited from these hunters and farmers and how that made you the unique person you are today. Your results will tell you if you carry the hunter or farmer version of each of these traits: caffeine metabolism, lactose tolerance, alcohol flush, and alcohol tolerance, and what that means for you today.
You are unique, the product of thousands of generations of striving and success, of hardship and adaptation, of migration and mysterious ancient trysts. Your genome contains a uniquely, human story. Insitome, and its future products, will guide you through the last 200,000+ years of human evolution and what it means for you today.
Each chapter of your story is overseen by Insitome founder and CEO Spencer Wells, former director of National Geographic’s Genographic Project.
When DNA passes from one generation to the next, most of it is mixed around by the processes that make each of us unique. But, some parts of the DNA remains largely intact generation after generation, altered only occasionally by random mutations. These intact stretches of DNA can be used to trace your ancestry back tens of thousands of years. Certain ancestral lineages adopted different lifestyles from others, and we can see the signatures of adaptation to those lifestyles in our DNA. Metabolism looks at your DNA for these signatures and provides fun facts about how it might impact your current lifestyle.
Your environment and current life choices do not influence the ancestral signatures in your DNA.
Get access to the best and latest in DNA discovery. It takes just 3 simple steps.
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Order Metabolism and Helix sends you a DNA collection kit, which includes everything you need to get sequenced.
Register your DNA kit, provide a small saliva sample, and drop it in the mail using the provided pre-paid shipping box you get in your kit.
After Helix sequences your DNA from your saliva, you’ll get an email from Insitome to view your results when they’re ready.
To capture the information stored in your DNA so it can be used for this product, we need to collect a small, one-time saliva sample from you. This kit has everything you need to provide that sample from the comfort of your own home, and you’ll never have to provide another.
A unique Kit ID you’ll use to register your kit
Saliva collection tube, cap, and printed instructions
A small bag and prepaid box to send your saliva sample to our lab
Insitome delivers immersive genetic experiences that empower, educate, and entertain. Our company values scientific innovation, storytelling, and design. Our products help reveal each fascinating chapter in the incredible and mysterious story of you. Join us in this journey of discovery today to find your place in history.
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From health and wellness insights to family planning and ancestry information, Helix’s growing list of partners can tap into your genetic profile to provide relevant insights for today, tomorrow and years to come.
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Products on Helix use the DNA information found in your saliva to give you insights into what makes you, you. The Helix DNA kit has everything you need to provide a saliva sample and send it to our lab to we can sequence your DNA.
Once you are sequenced, you can gain insights from any from any product on Helix for years to com – all without having to provide another saliva sample ever again.
This product checks for the relevant ancestry-related parts of your DNA in order to generate your Metabolism insights.
As ancient DNA and more powerful methods emerge our understanding of the shape of natural history and lifestyle driven adaptations becomes more and more precise.
Yes. In order to use Metabolism, you need to be sequenced by Helix. To ensure the quality and accuracy of the genetic information used for this service, products in the Helix marketplace do not accept genetic data from outside sources.
Your DNA information is stored securely by Helix. When sequencing is complete, Helix only sends the relevant DNA information needed by Insitome to generate your results. We do not share your DNA information with anyone without your permission. We always maintain high standards when it comes to the security and privacy of your DNA information.
You can find learn more in the Insitome Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Product Consent.
Insitome will send you an email when your results are ready to be viewed online.
No. You can access Metabolism using your web browser on almost any device.
Visit the Insitome Help Center or contact Insitome directly at help@insito.me.
