Affecting more than 415 million people globally, rosacea is a common skin condition, although a poorly understood one. The face and eyes are primarily affected, and the condition is often mistaken for being an 'adult acne'. According to a National Rosacea Society survey, close to 95% of patients know next to nothing about the signs […]
Did you know that your AncestryDNA raw data contains around 700,000 genetic markers? Ancestry reports only use 0.01% of this information. There is plenty of more information about your health, nutrition, fitness, allergy, MTHFR and specific genes like COMT, and APOE in your raw data. After finding out your ancestry information on the AncestryDNA site, […]
Did you know that your 23andMe raw data (v5 chip) contains around 650,000 genetic markers? Ancestry reports only use 0.01% of this information. There is plenty of more information about your health, nutrition, fitness, allergy, MTHFR and specific genes like COMT, and APOE in your raw data. After finding out your ancestry information on the 23andMe site, […]
Being one of the top 5 abundant minerals in the human body and involved in over 600 reactions, magnesium is often the overlooked and ‘taken-for-granted’ type of mineral. The spotlight is often taken over by calcium and phosphorous. In fact, the importance of magnesium is so less known that about 48% of Americans fall deficit […]
The story of our rise, the all-too-familiar emergence of Homo sapiens, comes with a plot-twist that many are not familiar with. We owe our survival to viruses, because if not for them, we may not be here at all. Like pulling invisible strings, viruses quietly influenced our existence and shaped our evolution for hundreds of […]
Imagine being told when you were a child that you’ll lapse in and out of a comatose state accompanied by hallucinations for the rest of your life that will take approximately 30 years from you. What would your reaction be? Would you be shocked, or would you give a knowing smile? After all, it’s characteristic […]
Less than a month ago, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) when it affected more than 100,000 people in 114 countries. As of today, April 7, there are over 1,000,000 cases in close to 200 countries. An unprecedented explosion in the number of cases in as […]
MyHeritage applies a strict privacy policy regarding DNA data, has never sold or licensed it to any third parties, and its privacy policy prohibits it from doing so without receiving explicit informed user consent. For as long as Promethease users have not granted such informed consent explicitly to MyHeritage, MyHeritage will never sell or license […]
Hippocrates once rightly quoted "Let food be thy medicine." Following a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle is the primary way to prevent many types of diseases. On an average, healthy individuals are better equipped to survive contagious diseases, like influenza, common cold, and even the novel COVID-19. Interested to learn more to help boost […]
