A New Genetic Test Could Determine Which Weight Loss Drug Will Actually Work For You
, are on social media, like any medications, they don’t work in the same way for everyone. Not all are even approved to treat obesity, but are being used off label as a relatively easy way to shed pounds. While some users lose up to 20% or more of their body weight on these drugs, others struggle to shed single digit percentages.
Dr. Andres Acosta, assistant professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic, has dedicated the past decade to developing such a tool. He and his team divide obesity into what he callsHungry Brain: those who eat until they’re full but get hungry again within an hour or sothose who eat to reward themselves or cope with emotional issues rather than based on physiological hungerWhat drives obesity, he says, should also drive which treatments people receive.
Part of that care involves matching patients to the right treatments as quickly and efficiently—and affordably—as possible. Horn has reached out to Phenomix to learn about offering MyPhenome to her patients, since having the test will go a long way toward accomplishing that. Doctors need to prescribe the test first, and can do so by creating an account with Phenomix. The company provides doctors with a swab kit that patients use to collect saliva from both cheeks, which the doctor then sends to Phenomix. The company contracts with a genetic sequencing lab that analyzes the sample for 6,000 variants across nearly two dozen genes strongly related to obesity.
In addition, Jabbar says the test can even be useful for people who are in the process of reaching their weight loss goals, or even those who have already reached them. Identifying their obesity type can help doctors to wean them off of drugs they are taking that aren’t as effective in helping them lose weight.Insurance companies are not yet covering MyPhenome, since the test is so new.
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