If you knew you were at an elevated risk for a serious disease like cancer, what would you do differently? While there is nothing you can do to change your genetic predisposition to various diseases, you can reduce your risk by modifying your metabolic health through changes in your daily living choices such as diet, exercise and stress management.
Phreedom Santé is a new personal health research facility and Innovation Place in Saskatoon designed to help people monitor their own metabolic health. The service is designed to monitor health and health risk factors through a patented research model.
Just like cholesterol levels are used as a measure or biomarker of cardiovascular health, Phreedom Santé looks at a variety of biomarkers linked to risk for neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
“You don’t just wake up one day with a tumour,” explains Zeba Ahmed, the Director of Development for Phreedom Santé. “Our research is focused on helping our clients understand risks that can lead to cancer. By understanding your own metabolism you can potentially tell if your cross the threshold from healthy to an elevated risk level and then take action to modify daily living choices to try to reduce risk.
What makes Phreedom Santé’s approach so unique is the ability to measure and monitor hundreds of metabolites, the biochemical materials your body uses and produces as part of daily living. Phreedom Santé is building the ground breaking research success of its parent company Phenomenome Discoveries Inc., which has patented the technology to examine those biomarkers. Phreedom Santé has been granted exclusive rights to monitor health risks using those proprietary biomarkers.
Currently, Phreedom Santé is focusing five key areas of health concern: brain and cognitive health; heart and circulatory health; metabolic health; cancer prevention and healthy aging. This repertoire of expertise is expected to expand as Phenomenome Discoveries continues to research and discover new biomarkers for other diseases.
