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Very interesting and informative on overall body health.

Took a little while to come through (patience isn't my strong point!) but really interesting insights. Some things I knew but it was nice to have the science behind it (coffee has no impact on my ability to sleep anywhere! anytime!)

I love the insight and detail it provides. I do however wish the part for meal planning and workouts could be more interactive. Providing for likes and dislikes, things you have to use at home or don't. Even just more able to arrange the meal planning. I want a little more simplicity b/c my life is too complicated to have a different meal plan every day. I wish I could pick some select meals and build out a week at a time to be able to better meal prep and create the variety I want and learn and understand my days values better. Otherwise the insight that it gives you is wonderful. I just hope and pray there are improvements on the way or they just haven't revealed those to me. Also wish I could access this app from a computer as well as my mobile device so I can work from wherever I am in the moment to plan.

My insights are not readily visible.

Nope, it is still not available. Tried logging in and out as per your tech support. Doesn’t work.

Great test. Very helpful for me. Now all my family members want to do it to get their health plan. Great value.

My doctor has not received any results yet despite am email from my DNA last week saying they have been sent.
I have sent emails to mydna to help@ and support@ and no reply
When I ask for a password reset to go into the account the email I receive with password reaet results in a error 404 when I press the link to reset. Is this a scam?

I found the results useless so wanted to cancel my subscription but found that impossible.
Edit: See their reply. So it seems it is more that the site is confusing and it is not clear what status I have, rather than anything more sinister. I think this problem may only arise when using a special offer to use results from a prior FTDNA test.

What a joke. You pay a lot of money to get your dna tested and THEN HAVE TO PAY AGAIN TO READ YOUR RESULTS !!!! Biggest con of all time! I want a refund!

Easy process, looking forward to the results!

It was a very good expirience. Hope to find more information for muself.

I’m so impressed with the DNA results side of things but hugely unimpressed with the recipes. I’d like to complain that the recipes are not user friendly from an Australian point of view and that the recipe method directs you to an international site that either no longer has an active link but also interactive ads blocking the content! It’s so frustrating! With 2 Australian ambassadors and seemingly a huge following, I expect much more professional content in the diet area.

Terrible service, long time for results & super expensive

I have never been able to get the app to work and attempts to get help at the contact page yield no results.

I would like to thank Marlene Neysa.
Due to me being unable to retrieve my Visa card from an ATM machine I needed a new card and PIN. Process takes up to 7 days. Marlene was a great communicator over the phone. Reduced my stress and was polite and respectful. She tried to assist with the problem. A new card arrived in due course and monthly debit done.
I hope Marlene is appreciated by her employer because she’s a keeper!
Thank you.
Chris Jackson

As someone who has struggled to gain weight and muscle, I thought myDNA could help me understand my genes a bit more and provide me with a suggested meal plan.

I was wrong - myDNA seems to focus more on those who want to lose weight or have no idea of where to start on their nutritional journey.

Positives

1. Delivery was quick and instructions were clear
2. The results were analysed in a pretty timely manner
3. The communication throughout this process (and the updates) were great.
4. The app is very pretty and set out well. It’s clear they spent a lot of money on design.
5. Customer service seems pretty good.

Negatives

1. My ‘priorities’ based on my DNA results are not tailored to my circumstances.

My goal (as set in the app) is to gain weight but the app suggests my medium priority should be to control ‘appetite and weight’ by practicing mindful eating and chewing slowly (not particularly useful since I’m trying to gain weight).

A low priority involves my body size. My MTIF3 gene indicates that I am likely to fall under the ‘normal’ weight range. Yet the only suggestions are to focusing on actions such as food choices and lifestyle (pretty obvious) and to check the results of my other genes. How does that help me achieve my goal?

I also get notifications/articles that are all about weight loss – useless to me.

2. Fitness results were not particularly useful. According to my results, I’m equally equipped for power and endurance (but the app shows 60% endurance 40% power). Isn’t equal 50/50?

3. The personalised weekly meal plans are horrendous – the worst feature by far.
a) The ingredients/recipes are not customised for Australia. Some include weight in pounds, oz, etc. One meal suggestion is to make Bison burgers – good luck trying to find Bison at Coles/Woolies!
b) Recipes are sourced from various free online databases. The app shows you the ingredients but there are no instructions on the app – you need to click a button in the app which takes you to the recipe webpage.
c) For the recipes, the amount of ingredients you need to buy are not customised. For example, I have some meals that I only consume once a week (under the "custom" meal plan). However, the recipe for the meal is for 4 people. If you don’t do the maths yourself, you might end up cooking a recipe for 4 people (i.e. 4 meals). That might be OK if the app was smart enough to recognise that you need to eat the same meal over 4 days but it doesn’t do that at all.
d) The suggested meals don’t match my calorie intake suggested by the app. The app says I need 3100 cal – the meals only total 2000!
e) Some of the macros and calories appear to be wrong – they gave me a recipe which involves 4 chicken breasts (for 4 people – 1 serve each). It was only 50 calories per serve (so presumably one chicken breast). According to google, 100 grams of a chicken breast is 165 calories!

Note – the recipes in the ‘explore’ section of the app have instructions in the actual app which is good. I have also raised the meal plan issues with myDNA directly- the customer service is OK (and they offered a three month trial extension), but it's been two weeks already and the meal plan macro issue has not been fixed.

4. The fitness plans default to home workouts – there should be an option to default to gym.
a) It’s not very customisable – there’s no time estimate for each workout
b) I don’t think you can mix and match between a home and gym workout. For example, a given day may involve a home ‘upper body’ workout or a gym ‘lower body pull’ workout.
c) The fitness plans seem OK but I’m not sure how effective it will be for me.
d) Generally speaking, the reps were high 8-15.
e) It would be more useful to understand how the workouts relate to my DNA profile – for example, why do my genes present more benefits for full body workout vs split?

I won't keep going on (but I could) - needless to say I would definitely not recommend a subscription (it's different situation if you just wanted a DNA test).

I have been through so many nutritional advice journey with nutrition experts, health and fitness journey and I didn't know about this DNA test until now, the test that gives me insights on how my body really works and what kind of diet and exercise that suitable based on my genes profile. I was always wondering why I was never been flexible, did yoga classes for 3 years and although the journey itself helped me in certain ways, but since I started to switch to high intensity training, weight training, even running, I can understand now why I have the ability to sustain to these exercise plans. Most importantly, I personally felt the difference on my fitness journey and have had the ability to kept my weight down. My genes predisposition provide me with equal level of power and endurance. I have been previously recommended (before these reports were available) to try on keto diet, I was skeptical at that time and I was lucky I didn't end up doing keto diet because now I am aware that I have this gene that doesn't allow my body to burn fat as fast as other people. I have also just received insights on skin and caffeine, and for someone who is also a skin health enthusiast, the insights are really amazing. So thank you, myDNA, I absolutely love everything about this journey knowing how genes on my body work, how I can optimise my health, what to watch for when I eat and still enjoy the food that I love.

Very insightful app that allows you to focus your food and training plans so as to deliver quicker results based on your genetics. Results in less hit and miss experimentation with your food and fitness, instead insuring the time you spend actually making a difference and not wasting time.

I use myDNA for the personalised fitness and meal choice advice.
I used to wonder why I wasn’t losing weight even when I exercise a lot. But myDNA revealed that I have a body type that builds muscle easily but also accumulates body fat more than an average person.
Based on the DNA test result, I increased the amount of weight training I do and also limited my fat intake. As the result, I lost 7kgs and have been staying that way for 12 months now.
The regular fitness and menu suggestions based on my DNA type is very helpful as well.
I definitely recommend everyone to try it.

Great experience from start to finish!

High recommend

5 things you should know before you buy a myDNA kit.

I thought I just buy a simple DNA report to get a different view point on my health and medication. But I was wrong.

1) Basically it is a subscription to a fitness and food management plan, with a narrow DNA analysis at the beginning. You have no other choice than to subscribe to a trial period after that your credit card will be automatically charged on monthy basis. You need to cancel later on if you don't want this ongoing plan. I was not expecting this and this extra work annoyed me.

2) You don't get a report in your email or as a letter. All your results will be only avaliable on your phone app. If you want the results for your records, you have to type them up yourself. I was annoyed by the extra work it caused me.

3) You don't get all the information at once. Instead more analytical results are added each week. I suppose to give you the impression that they are continiously working hard on your results. (of course, we all know it's a computer algorithm that generated all results within the first minute the DNA sequencing is back from the lab.) This resulted in an ongoing annoyance. Please, just give me the bloody full report you intend to give me.

4) No, you don't get your all your DNA sequenced. Only the parts that are known and related to medications, fitness and vitamins. If you want a more comprehensive test, like illnesses that are in your blood line (e.g. what type of cancer) etc., then you are wrong here. ... I wish I would have know that earlier as I would have choosen a different provider (more expensive though) that does offer that.

5) If you choose the package with medication report: There is another surprise. You don't get the results. Instead they are send to the pharamcy (or GP) that you named in the subscription process at the beginning. So if you want the results for your records or your own learning, then you have to chase up with your pharmacy / GP.

Conclusion:
For some people this might be exactly what they want and need. But for me, this was by far, more time consuming and annoying as I imagined. The actual results are quite useful to me though. But boy they do everything to make a perfectly nice product annoying and costly in time. I can't recommend it.