Along with the media and the general public around the world, we were fascinated by the publication of the human genome in 2001. The findings were revolutionary in their implications: not only are our genes unique but also the process by which we can maintain our health. There is an infallible method: Identifying the right way of living for our genetic predisposition. This involves a combination of data processing, biological sciences, nanotechnology and computerized proteomics that will allow new interventions (not always predictable in their consequences) in the development of homo sapiens, a species that is not the final stage of evolution but only an intermediate product along the way.
But it is not only the first genetic code that has such great influence on our health and wellbeing; the second code has probably a much more decisive say in how we age and what influences we have on this process. As a result of changing dietary habits and of permanent access to calories, the epigenetic regulatory mechanisms have changed, the insulinogenic ‘second messengers’ have been over-expressed and thus also the anthropomorphic parameters. And last but not least, our understanding of gestation, as more and more details become known of the signal molecules that are necessary in the critical development phases for certain organs. Prolactin and progesterone are typical examples. And here, science has been enriched by a new and fascinating area: after the decryption of the genetic code and after the exploration of the epigenetic function marking of our genome (a work still in progress), we are now turning to the decryption of the third code, namely that of gestation. Taking all of this together and adding the latest biochemical markers such as telomere lengths, it is now possible to develop a sophisticated individualized age prevention strategy, and that is precisely the target that we have set ourselves on behalf of each and every one of our clients.
