No — and that's an important distinction. This is not a diagnostic test for any medical condition. It's a fitness-focused profile that decodes 31 genetic traits related to muscle composition, training response, injury risk, and recovery in healthy adults. If you have current injuries or medical concerns, please work with a qualified physician or physical therapist alongside the profile.

The Recovery & Injury Risk profile is the only ILSA test focused on physical performance and fitness genetics — ACTN3 muscle fiber, ACE endurance architecture, COL5A1 soft tissue, IL6 inflammation, FTO weight response, and the rest of the exercise-physiology panel. Other ILSA profiles (Motivation & Focus, Novelty-Seeking & Risk Tolerance, Behavior & Habit Formation) decode behavioral and personality genetics. Pick this one if your question is about training, injury, recovery, or weight loss — not personality.

No — it tells you where your body's natural advantage sits. ACTN3 RR is enriched in elite power athletes; ACTN3 XX is enriched in elite endurance athletes. But these are statistical tendencies, not destinies. Plenty of XX sprinters and RR marathoners exist. The point isn't to label you. It's to tell you which training stimulus your physiology responds to most efficiently — so you stop running someone else's program against your own wiring.

It will tell you the type of training your body responds to most efficiently (power vs endurance), how aggressively you can progress load, how long your real recovery window is, and where your soft tissue is most vulnerable. It will not replace a qualified strength coach or physical therapist — but it gives them (and you) a far more precise starting point than a generic intake form ever could.

Yes — and we encourage it. The profile gives a strength coach, personal trainer, physical therapist, or sports physician a precise genetics-informed starting point that conventional intake forms can't offer. It can accelerate the work, sharpen programming, and reduce trial-and-error. You stay in control of when and what to share.

It's designed to. The FTO, ADRB2, and fat-oxidation genes in your profile tell you why your body might respond strongly to one weight-loss strategy (heavy strength training, steady cardio, high-protein nutrition) and weakly to another. It is not a diet plan, and it does not replace the work — but it stops you from running protocols built for someone else's physiology and getting frustrated when the scale doesn't move.

Then the profile may be even more useful. You don't need to be elite to benefit from training that matches your wiring instead of fighting it. Whether you're starting fitness for the first time, returning after an injury, or trying to lose weight without keeping getting hurt — knowing your ACTN3, COL5A1, IL6, and FTO variants lets you build a program around the body you actually have, not the body in the workout videos.

The testing is performed in a CLIA-certified laboratory using established SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) analysis — the standard for ACTN3, ACE, COL5A1, IL6, FTO, and the rest of the panel. Every interpretation is grounded in peer-reviewed exercise and sports genetics research. Your DNA and personal data are kept secure and HIPAA-protected at every step.

No. Your DNA does not change. One test gives you a profile that is yours, forever. As exercise genetics research evolves, interpretations may be updated — but your underlying genetic data is a one-time investment.

Yes. The lab is CLIA-certified and your data is stored in a HIPAA-compliant system. We do not sell or share your genetic data. You are always the owner.

Due to state regulations on direct-to-consumer genetic testing, we currently do not ship to New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, or Maryland. Anywhere else in the United States is fine.