Reply from SelfDecodeJan 13, 2023
Hi there,
I’m sorry to hear that you did not find our email updates helpful. We provide additional services to better help our customers when seeking to improve their health, so we like to keep our everyone well informed about what’s available on the site. You can absolutely unsubscribe at any time if you are not interested in said services.
Before we go any further, I want to emphasize that the risk scores in your reports are not definitive of what health conditions you will develop. The risk icon in your Health Reports tell you if you are at a higher or lower risk compared to other people, and they are solely based on genetics.
Because there are other variables that will influence the emergence of certain conditions, or prevent others from developing, genes alone are not enough to diagnose a condition or predict the future. Many people are at high risk for diseases and conditions they never get, and vice versa.
There are other factors, including lifestyle, environment, and overall health, that play an important role in determining how your genetic risks manifest in your life. Genetics is just one piece of the puzzle.
This is where the beauty of SelfDecode begins. By understanding what genetic conditions you are most at risk for and why you are at risk for them, you are able to take your destiny into your own hands by modifying your diet, lifestyle, and supplement action plan to avert the expression of such genes.
It's also worth noting that the information provided by SelfDecode is not a diagnosis or prediction. It is simply meant to empower you with more information about how your genes may potentially impact your health.
We aim to help you learn more about your genetic health risks and offer personalized recommendations to counteract the risks. We also tell you which genes you have that are associated with certain conditions and symptoms based on scientific research.
I completely understand the feeling that the recommendations feel generic. Your top recommendations do happen to be the things that seem "generic" or common because they are the things that are going to be most effective and have the most research behind them.
We realized that our users wanted more, so we added the option to remove recommendations from your reports. If you remove a recommendation that you don't find useful, it will be replaced with a suggestion from further down on your prioritized list. These recommendations tend to be less common since there is less research on their effectiveness.
We always cite our sources throughout our reports, so if you are interested in seeing where we got any information from, you can click on the blue R to read the article yourself!
Of course, you could find these articles online yourself, however our Science Team has done the work of finding the most distinguished research and matching it up to the relevant health topics for you, so you don't need to. Our goal at SelfDecode is to provide you with information about your genetics to help empower your health and awareness without having to sift through a ton of research papers and studies.
We truly care about about our customers getting the right product fit, so we encourage you to reach out to our support team, if you haven't already. You can reach us at [email protected] - we're happy to help!